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The Patent Leather Kid
The Patent Leather Kid
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THE PATENT LEATHER KID

Directed by Alfred Santell
United States, 1927
Silent, Drama, Sport, War

Synopsis

Barthelmess plays the unnamed title character, a Hell’s Kitchen prizefighter eyeing a shot at the title. Everyone in New York is rooting against him though — he’s an arrogant pug who fancies himself a dandy and insists on having his hair combed between rounds.

Synopsis

Barthelmess plays the unnamed title character, a Hell’s Kitchen prizefighter eyeing a shot at the title. Everyone in New York is rooting against him though — he’s an arrogant pug who fancies himself a dandy and insists on having his hair combed between rounds.