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Dressed to Kill is a 1928 US crime film directed by Irving Cummings, and starring Edmund Lowe and Mary Astor.

Synopsis
The film mainly takes place in a luxurious nightclub, the rendezvous of an elegantly attired gang of criminals. Their leader, "Mile-Away" Barry (Lowe), falls for the attractions of Jeanne (Astor), a girl whose lover has been wrongfully accused of one of the gang's crimes, a theft of some bonds. Jeanne, posing as a gun moll, falls in with the gang in the hope that she'll be able to get hold of the bonds and prove her lover innocent. When the gang discover her real intentions, Barry sacrifices his life in order to save hers.