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Cradle Snatchers

1927 film by Howard Hawks

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]

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The film was remade as Why Leave Home? (1929).[3]

Plot

Three unhappy, middle-aged housewives teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged men during the jazz age.

Cast

Preservation

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]

References

  1. [1]
    Progressive Silent Film List: The Cradle Snatchers at silentera.com
  2. [2]
    The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Cradle Snatchers
  3. [3]
    American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. 1921-1930. Vol. F2. University of California Press. p. 898. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
  4. [4]
    The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Cradle Snatchers
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