{{short description|1928 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Crooks Can't Win | image = File:Crooks Can't Win.jpg | caption = | director = George M. Arthur | producer = | based_on = | writer = Randolph Bartlett <br> Enid Hibbard <br> Joseph Jefferson O'Neil | narrator = | starring = Ralph Lewis <br> Thelma Hill <br> Joe E. Brown | music = | cinematography = Robert Martin | editing = George M. Arthur | studio = Film Booking Offices of America | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America <br> Ideal Films (UK) | released = {{Film date|1928|04|07}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent <br> English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Crooks Can't Win''''' is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by George M. Arthur and starring Ralph Lewis, Thelma Hill and Joe E. Brown.<ref>Gehring p.38</ref>
==Synopsis== A police officer is kicked off the force when his superior wrongly believes that he is complicit in a robbery committed by a gang his brother is involved with. With the assistance of a crime reporter, he sets out to round up the gang of thieves and clear his name.
==Cast== * Ralph Lewis as Dad Gillen * Thelma Hill as Mary Gillen * Sam Nelson as Danny Malone * Joe E. Brown as Jimmy Wells * Eugene Strong as Alfred Dayton Jr * Charlie Hall as 'Bull' Savage
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==Bibliography== * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Gehring, Wes D. ''Joe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon''. McFarland, 2014. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0018805}}
Category:1928 films Category:1928 crime films Category:1928 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American crime films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:1928 American films Category:English-language crime films
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