Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)
A story of the East and West with all the pep, tang and vigor of American Manhood.
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George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, "Believe me, Xantippe." In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman's pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.
- Release date
- June 2, 1918
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Wallace Reid as George MacFarland
- Ann Little as Dolly Kamman
- Ernest Joy as Thornton Brown
- Henry Woodward as Arthur Sole
- Noah Beery as Sheriff Kamman
- James Cruze as Simp Calloway
- Winifred Greenwood as Violette
- Jim Farley as Detective Thorne
- Charles Ogle as Wrenn Wrgley
- Clarence Geldert as Williams
Crew
- Donald Crisp · Director
- John Frederick Ballard · Writer
- Olga Printzlau · Writer
- Jesse L. Lasky · Producer
- Henry Kotani · Cinematographer