The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
1928 · Silent film · 88 min · dir. D.W. Griffith
The Clash of Love and a Straying Papa!
- Drama
- Comedy
Synopsis
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?
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writer
- Gerrit J. Lloyd
- Composer
- Nathaniel Shilkret
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
- Studio
- Feature Productions, Art Cinema Corporation, United Artists
- Released
- 1928-10-12
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Comedy Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
D.W. Griffith Director
Jean Hersholt
Phyllis Haver
Belle Bennett
Sally O'Neil
Don Alvarado
William Bakewell- John Batten
