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The Battle of the Sexes
UNITED STATES · 1928

The Battle of the Sexes

D.W. Griffith
infidelity con artists seduction marital conflict gold digging
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Synopsis

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

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