The Battle of the Sexes

5.2
  • Genre: DramaComedy
  • Run time: 88 min
  • Premiere: 1928. October 12.

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?

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Jean Hersholt

William Judson

Phyllis Haver

Marie Skinner

Belle Bennett

Mrs. Judson

Sally O'Neil

Ruth, the Daughter

Don Alvarado

Babe Winsor

John Batten

Judson's Friend

Camera

Billy Bitzer

Director of Photography

Karl Struss

Director of Photography

Directing

D.W. Griffith

Director

Editing

James Smith

Editor

Production

D.W. Griffith

Producer

Sound

Hugo Riesenfeld

Original Music Composer

Nathaniel Shilkret

Original Music Composer

Writing

Gerrit J. Lloyd

Screenplay

Camera

Billy Bitzer

Director of Photography

Karl Struss

Director of Photography

Directing

D.W. Griffith

Director

Editing

James Smith

Editor

Production

D.W. Griffith

Producer

Sound

Hugo Riesenfeld

Original Music Composer

Nathaniel Shilkret

Original Music Composer

Writing

Gerrit J. Lloyd

Screenplay