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The Battle of the Sexes is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 12 october 1928 with Jean Hersholt

The Battle of the Sexes (1928)

The Battle of the Sexes
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Released in USA 12 october 1928
Length 1h28
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating64% 3.2374153.2374153.2374153.2374153.237415

For Griffith's earlier version, see The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film).



The Battle of the Sexes (1928) is a film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Don Alvarado and Sally O'Neil, and released by United Artists. The film was a remake by Griffith of an earlier film he directed in 1914, which starred Lillian Gish. Both films are based on the short story "The Single Standard" by Daniel Carson Goodman; the story was adapted for this production by Gerrit J. Lloyd.

The film was released as both a silent film, and in a sound version using the Movietone sound-on-film system. In 2004, the film was released on DVD by Image Entertainment. The theme song of the motion picture, "Just a Sweetheart", by Dave Dryer, Josef Pasternack and Nathaniel Shilkret (recorded versions of which are available, for example, on a commercially issued Paul Whiteman CD) was omitted from the DVD.

Synopsis

Marie Skinner (Phyllis Haver) is a gold digger with her hooks out for devoted middle-aged family man J.C. Hudson (Jean Hersholt), a portly real estate tycoon, who falls for her when she contrives to meet him. When his wife (Belle Bennett) and grown children, Ruth (Sally O'Neil) and Billy (William Bakewell) discover him dancing with Marie at a nightclub, J.C. leaves home the next day. Ruth seeks out Marie to shoot her, but is interrupted by Marie's boyfriend, jazz hound Babe Winsor (Don Alvarado), who takes a shine to her. When Judson walks in on them he condemns her licentiousness, but is forced to face his double standard when he witnesses a violent argument between Marie and Babe. Full of contrition, J.C. returns to home and hearth and the bosom of his loving family.

Actors

Jean Hersholt

(William Judson)Phyllis Haver

(Marie Skinner)Belle Bennett

(Mrs. Judson)Don Alvarado

(Babe Winsor)Sally O'Neil

(Ruth, the Daughter)
And :
William Bakewell
Rolfe Sedan
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