| 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 andNorma 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 | 7reels; 6,281 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
Cradle Snatchers is a 1927 Americansilentcomedy film directed byHoward Hawks. The picture is based on the 1925 Russell Medcraft andNorma Mitchell stage play of the same name that starredMary Boland,Edna May Oliver,Raymond Hackett,Gene Raymond, andHumphrey Bogart.[1][2]
The film wasremade asWhy Leave Home? (1929).[3]
Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged men during thejazz age.
An incomplete print ofCradle Snatchers, missing part ofreel 3 and all of reel 4, is in the collection of theLibrary of Congress.[4]
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