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Silk Hat Kid is a 1935 American crime film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and written by Edward Eliscu, Lou Breslow and Dore Schary. The film, starring Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Paul Kelly, Ralf Harolde, William Harrigan and Billy Lee, was released on July 19, 1935, by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation. [1] [2] [3]
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Lou Breslow. Screenplay. Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
A priest (William Harrigan) running a settlement house for young boys tries to help reform a gunman (Lew Ayres) by hiring him on to teach the kids, but this causes complications with a benefactor businessman (Paul Kelly) when the new hire proves to be a romantic rival for a young woman (Mae Clarke). Well-meaning, OK light drama.
Meanwhile, the dying woman in Brooklyn turns out to be Tim's divorced wife who has a four-year-old child, Tommy, born just after their divorce. She does not want Tim to have the child, but wants Joe to care for him.
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