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The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 12, 1928

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

53%

Original Title

The Battle of the Sexes

Production Companies

Feature Productions, Art Cinema Corporation

Director

D.W. Griffith

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?