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The Battle of the Sexes (1928)

NR ★ 4.9/10 88 min Drama, Comedy United States English
Director: D.W. Griffith
Screenplay by: Gerrit J. Lloyd
Story by: Daniel Carson Goodman
Streaming: Not available
The Clash of Love and a Straying Papa!

Description

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?

Top Cast

Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt William Judson
Phyllis Haver
Phyllis Haver Marie Skinner
Belle Bennett
Belle Bennett Mrs. Judson
Sally O'Neil
Sally O'Neil Ruth, the Daughter
Don Alvarado
Don Alvarado Babe Winsor
William Bakewell
William Bakewell The Son
John Batten Judson's Friend

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