Woman Hungry | |
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Directed by | Clarence G. Badger |
Written by | Howard Estabrook based on the play by William Vaughn Moody |
Starring | Sidney Blackmer Lila Lee Raymond Hatton Fred Kohler Kenneth Thomson |
Cinematography | Sol Polito Charles Schoenbaum (Technicolor) |
Edited by | Alexander Hall |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Woman Hungry is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film with music photographed entirely in Technicolor. The film was based on the play The Great Divide (from 1906) which was written by William Vaughn Moody. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). [1] [2]
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