Film

Believe Me, Xantippe

1918 · 50m · Comedy · Romance

A story of the East and West with all the pep, tang and vigor of American Manhood.

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.

Wallace Reid

George MacFarland

Ann Little

Dolly Kamman

Ernest Joy

Thornton Brown

Henry Woodward

Arthur Sole

Noah Beery

Sheriff Kamman

James Cruze

Simp Calloway

Winifred Greenwood

Violette

Jim Farley

Detective Thorne

Charles Ogle

Wrenn Wrgley

Clarence Geldart

Williams

• Donald CrispDirector
• Olga PrintzlauWriter
• Jesse L. LaskyProducer
• Henry KotaniDirector of Photography

Release date

June 2, 1918

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Rated

NR

Genres

Comedy, Romance