The Battle of the Sexes

The Battle of the Sexes

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 12, 1928

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?

The Battle of the Sexes

88 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 12, 1928

The Battle of the Sexes
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?
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Feature Productions, Art Cinema Corporation
Original title The Battle of the Sexes
Directors D.W. Griffith
Writers Daniel Carson Goodman, Gerrit J. Lloyd

Cast

Jean Hersholt

as William Judson

Phyllis Haver

as Marie Skinner

Belle Bennett

as Mrs. Judson

Sally O'Neil

as Ruth, the Daughter

Don Alvarado

as Babe Winsor

William Bakewell

as The Son

John Batten

as Judson's Friend