The Battle of the Sexes
“The Clash of Love and a Straying Papa!”
1928•NR•1h 28m•5.3•Released
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
Writer
Gerrit J. Lloyd
Languages
No Language
Studio
Feature Productions
Cast
Jean Hersholt
William Judson
Phyllis Haver
Marie Skinner
Belle Bennett
Mrs. Judson
Sally O'Neil
Ruth, the Daughter
Don Alvarado
Babe Winsor
William Bakewell
The Son
John Batten
Judson's Friend
Production
Company
Feature Productions
Company
Art Cinema Corporation
Company
United Artists
Producer
D.W. Griffith
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