The Shoes That Danced
Cast & Crew
Frank Borzage
Pauline Starke
Wallace Macdonald
Dick Rosson
Anna Dodge
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Film Details
Synopsis
Shopgirl Rhoda Regan is in love with the Harmony Lad, the leader of a New York street gang called the Hudson Dusters. After two gang murders are committed in the Pepper Box, a local cabaret, the Harmony Lad promises his worried sweetheart that he will abandon the gang for a singing career, and true to his word, he soon accepts a job on the Pepper Box stage. When Stumpy Darcy, the new leader of the Dusters, kills rival gang leader Wedge Barker, who had flirted with Stumpy's girl friend, Mamie Conlon, the Harmony Lad flees to New Jersey to escape police interrogation. In order to throw the police off the track while her lover escapes, Rhoda dances all night long with Stumpy, who has come to a masked ball dressed as Charlie Chaplin. Stumpy follows Rhoda home, where the police, imagining him to be the Harmony Lad, arrest him. His name cleared, the Harmony Lad marries Rhoda and embarks on a promising career in vaudeville.
Director
Frank Borzage
Cast
Pauline Starke
Wallace Macdonald
Dick Rosson
Anna Dodge
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Anne Kroman
Edward Brady
William Dyer
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Notes
Variety notes that the street gangs depicted in the film, the Hudson Dusters and the Cherry Hills, were actual East Side street gangs. Exhibitor's Trade Review erroneously credits Anne Kroman with the leading role of Rhoda Regan.
