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Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)
Directed by Donald Crisp
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 50 minutes
Actors
Wallace Reid | Ann Little | Ernest Joy | Henry Woodward | Noah Beery | James Cruze | Winifred Greenwood | Jim Farley | Charles Ogle | Clarence Geldart