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Title: Cradle Snatchers | 1927 | Comedy
Director: Howard Hawks
Studio: Fox Film Corporation
Starring: Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, Dorothy Phillips, J. Farrell MacDonald, Franklin Pangborn, Joseph Striker, Nick Stuart, Arthur Lake, Diane Ellis, Sammy Cohen
Based on: Cradle Snatchers by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell
Release Date: June 5, 1927
Runtime: 59
Format: Silent , black-and-white, 35mm, 1.33:1, 7 reels
Country: United States
Language: Silent
Genres: Comedy

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Suspicions and schemes
00:10:30 Recruiting the college boys
00:25:00 Rehearsal misdirections
00:40:00 The party begins
00:53:00 Revelations and reconciliation

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Summary:
Three wives, weary of their husbands’ flirtations with flappers, devise a plan to make them jealous: they hire three college boys to pose as admirers at a house party. What begins as a controlled ruse spirals into a tangle of mistaken identities, bruised egos, and comic confrontations when the husbands and their young companions crash the event.

Set in the Jazz Age, the film plays as a brisk marital farce about pride, temptation, and the fragile equilibrium of domestic life. The ruse ultimately exposes folly on all sides and nudges the couples toward reconciliation.

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Background:
Cradle Snatchers adapts the 1925 Broadway hit by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell and arrives early in Howard Hawks’s career, preceding his celebrated sound-era comedies. Produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, the silent feature was later remade by Fox as Why Leave Home? and also inspired the Paramount musical Let’s Face It . Surviving elements of the film are preserved at the Library of Congress.

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Trivia:
The film premiered in New York on May 28, 1927, with general U.S. release following on June 5, 1927.

Arthur Lake, who appears as Oscar, would later become widely known as Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie film series.

Franklin Pangborn, cast as Howard Drake, went on to a prolific career as a comic character actor in 1930s–1940s Hollywood.

Assistant director James Tinling later directed numerous Fox features throughout the 1930s.

An incomplete 35mm print is held by the Library of Congress.

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Public Domain / Rights:
Original Release: June 5, 1927
Original Studio / Distributor: Fox Film Corporation
Copyright Status: Public Domain
Renewal: No

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