Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger 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.
The Verdict: A Late-Period Griffith Curio Worth Watching for the VillainyD.W. Griffith’s 1928 version of The Battle of the Sexes is a film that feels caught between two worlds. On one hand, you have the Victorian morality that Griffith could never quite shake—the idea of the 'sanctity of the hearth' and the fallen man....
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"The Verdict: A Late-Period Griffith Curio Worth Watching for the VillainyD.W. Griffith’s 1928 version of The Battle of the Sexes is a film that feels caught between two worlds. On one hand, you have the Victorian morality that Griffith could never quite shake—the idea of the 'sanctity of the hearth' and the fallen man. On the other, you have the high-energy, cynical, gum-chewing reality of the late 1920s. Is it worth watching today? Yes, primarily for fans of silent-era character acting and thos..."
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