What Men Want

1930Movie⏱️ 1h 5mPassed

DramaRomance

⭐ 6.7

IMDB Rating

61 votes

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

Director

Ernst Laemmle

Writers

Samuel Hopkins Adams, John B. Clymer, Dorothy Yost

Stars

Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon, Hallam Cooley

Release Date

July 13, 1930

Language

English

Country

United States

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Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Pauline Starke

as Lee Joyce

Ben Lyon

as Kendall James

Hallam Cooley

as Bunch

Barbara Kent

as Betty 'Babs' Joyce

Robert Ellis

as Howard LeMoyne

Carmelita Geraghty

as Mabel

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Jack Byron

as Party Boy

Edmund Cobb

as Party Boy

Bill Elliott

as Party Boy

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Bernice Pilot

as Lee's Maid

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.20 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Production

Universal Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

infidelityseductionadulterydeceptioncheating husband

🎯 Categories

DramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

It's Not Complicated, Except For the Women

by boblipton • 2023-10-21

4/10

"They want sex, of course: easy, consequence-free sex. So we get this pre-code movie in which Pauline Starke gives up her life as Robert Ellis' lover, because she's fallen in love with Ben Lyon. Ellis has been willing to pay, in gifts, in trips to Europe, in tips on the stock market. But now she's in love, and wishes to gives herself to Lyon. Ellis, a gentleman, says good luck, and changes that stateroom on the ship to a single.... then changes his mind. Something might turn up. Someone might turn up. Miss Starke might turn up. What women want, apparently, is far more complicate..."