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Cradle Snatchers (1927)

Cradle Snatchers poster
Directed by
Howard Hawks
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
59 min
Rating
3.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film is about a group of married women who scheme to teach their neglectful husbands a lesson. They pretend to have affairs with younger men to make their husbands jealous.

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What happens

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. The film was remade as Why Leave Home? (1929). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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