---
title: 'The Duke Steps Out (1929)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Cruze'
released: '1929-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 62
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-duke-steps-out-1929'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019839/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Duke Steps Out (1929)

1929 · 62 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

The Duke Steps Out is a 1929 American synchronized sound comedy-drama film directed by James Cruze and starring William Haines and Joan Crawford. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film is lost, but the Vitaphone sound discs track of music and sound effects survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Cruze](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-cruze)
- **Screenplay:** [Dale Van Every](https://cinepixo.com/people/dale-van-every), [Raymond L. Schrock](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-l-schrock)
- **Original Music Composer:** [William Axt](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-axt)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ira H. Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ira-h-morgan)
- **Editor:** [George Hively](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-hively-2)

## Cast

- [Joan Crawford](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-crawford)
- [Delmer Daves](https://cinepixo.com/people/delmer-daves)
- [Karl Dane](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-dane)
- [William Haines](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-haines)
- [Tenen Holtz](https://cinepixo.com/people/tenen-holtz)
- [Edward Nugent](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-nugent)
- [Herbert Prior](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-prior)

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