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1927 film by Howard Hawks From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cradle Snatchers is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starred Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Hackett, Gene Raymond, and Humphrey Bogart.[1][2]
Cradle Snatchers | |
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Directed by | Howard Hawks |
Written by | Sarah Y. Mason (scenario) Malcolm Stuart Boylan (intertitles) |
Based on | Cradle Snatchers by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell |
Produced by | William Fox |
Starring | Louise Fazenda Dorothy Phillips Ethel Wales |
Cinematography | L. William O'Connell |
Distributed by | Fox Film |
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Running time | 7 reels; 6,281 feet |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The film was remade as Why Leave Home? (1929).[3]
Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged men during the jazz age.
An incomplete print of Cradle Snatchers, missing part of reel 3 and all of reel 4, is in the collection of the Library of Congress.[4]
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