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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 Cradle Snatchers: Directed by Howard Hawks. With Louise Fazenda, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ethel Wales, Franklin Pangborn. Three unhappy middle-aged homemakers teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged lads during the Jazz Age.
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- Comedy
- Howard Hawks
- 1927-05-28
Apr 1, 2023 · The Cradle Snatchers (1927) Special Note: This film only survives in an incomplete form, some portions in the middle are missing and considered lost. Three women try to get back at their cheating husbands by getting some college students to flirt with them to stoke their jealousy, and teach them a lesson. This film was copyrighted in 1927 and ...
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a ...
Based on the play Cradle Snatchers, a Farce-Comedy in Three Acts by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell (New York, c1931).
The Cradle Snatchers is still in Hawks' nascence period of cinematic childhood - where he does his fair share of snatching, particularly from the tone and energy of other filmmakers with a peculiar bent around depicting women - and creates a precedence for his own style delineating from that of the crib he is snatching things from.
