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. An incomplete copy, missing part of reel 3 and all of reel 4, exists in the Library of Congress.[1][2][3]
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 later remade as Why Leave Home? (1929).[4]
Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age.
Films directed by Howard Hawks | |
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