
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 ...
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D.W. Griffith

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Daniel Carson Goodman, Gerrit J. Lloyd
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