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The Battle of the Sexes (1928)

Movie"The Clash of Love and a Straying Papa!"
Audience Score
52
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NR 1 hr 28 minOct 12th, 1928Drama, Comedy
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?
StarringJean HersholtPhyllis HaverBelle Bennett
DirectorD.W. Griffith

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 12th, 1928
On DVD & Blu-ray:August 29th, 2000 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Feature Productions, Art Cinema Corporation
Movie Tags:
silent filmgold digger