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The Battle of the Sexes

"The Clash of Love and a Straying Papa!"

1928-10-12
5.2
en 88m
DramaComedy
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?

Director

D.W. Griffith

Screenplay

Gerrit J. Lloyd

Story

Daniel Carson Goodman

Producer

D.W. Griffith

Original Music Composer

Hugo Riesenfeld

Original Music Composer

Nathaniel Shilkret

silent film gold digger

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Feature Productions
  • Art Cinema Corporation
  • United Artists