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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 april 1914 with Donald Crisp

The Battle of the Sexes (1914)

The Battle of the Sexes
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Released in USA 12 april 1914
Length 50minutes
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating61% 3.0936753.0936753.0936753.0936753.093675

The Battle of the Sexes is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Majestic Motion Picture Company. No complete prints of the film are known to exist, however, a fragment has survived. Griffith remade the film as The Battle of the Sexes in 1928 as a dramedy and this latter version is available on DVD.

Synopsis

Frank Andrews (Donald Crisp) is a well-to-do, middle class apartment dweller who is devoted to his wife (Mary Alden) and two children, John (Robert Harron) and Jane (Lillian Gish). Andrews enters into a mid-life crisis when a fetching young lady, Cleo (Fay Tincher), moves into the apartment next door to the Andrews'. Cleo takes note of Andrews' interest in her and begins to flirt with him, going so far as to set a fire in her apartment in order to attract his aid. Before long, Andrews and Cleo are involved in an affair, and Andrews begins to neglect both his family and responsibilities at work. Humiliated and aghast at her mother's silent suffering over the situation, Jane goes next door with the idea of killing Cleo, but instead they strike up a conversation, and a mutual understanding. They hatch a plan whereby one of Cleo's former beaus (Owen Moore) appears to be courting Jane in front of Andrews, who swiftly condemns his daughter's interest in the man. Jane counters by pointing out Andrews' own poor moral choices, and he sees the error of his ways. Andrews is happily reconciled to his family, and Cleo sets out in search of new digs.

Actors

Donald Crisp

(Frank Andrews)Lillian Gish

(Jane Andrews, the daughter)Robert Harron

(John Andrews, the son)Mary Alden

(Mrs. Frank Andrews)Owen Moore

(Cleo's lover)
And :
Rudolph Valentino
Fay Tincher
W. E. Lawrence
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