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What Men Want

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
💬 3
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Pauline Starke
Pauline Starke
as Lee Joyce
Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon
as Kendall James
Hallam Cooley
Hallam Cooley
as Bunch
Barbara Kent
Barbara Kent
as Betty 'Babs' Joyce
Robert Ellis
Robert Ellis
as Howard LeMoyne
Carmelita Geraghty
Carmelita Geraghty
as Mabel
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Jack Byron
as Party Boy
Edmund Cobb
Edmund Cobb
as Party Boy
Bill Elliott
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 boblipton2023-10-21
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..."

📖 Synopsis

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