Mantrap
About Mantrap
New York divorce lawyer Ralph Prescott, tired of his clients, goes camping in Mantrap, Canada, with hosiery man E. Wesson Woodbury. They fight. Joe Easter, who keeps a store there, breaks it up and takes Ralph home. Joe's wife Alverna, a former Minneapolis manicurist, is bored in the woods and leaves with Ralph. Joe tracks them. When Ralph offers to marry her if Joe will divorce, Joe tells him she will not stop flirting.
Cast & crew
More about Mantrap
B. P. Schulberg produced it for Famous Players-Lasky. Paramount released it. Ethel Doherty and Adelaide Heilbron wrote the script; George Marion Jr. wrote titles. A viewing note places the woods scenes at Big Bear Lake and in the San Bernardino National Forest. Shot from April 7 to May 14, 1926.
Themes
Reviews
Variety of July 14, 1926, called Clara Bow a corking little ingénue who stole scenes.
Look
James Wong Howe was the cinematographer.
Notes
- Clara Bow plays Alverna, Ernest Torrence Joe Easter, Percy Marmont Ralph Prescott, and Eugene Pallette Woodbury. Tom Kennedy plays Curly Evans.
- The current English Wikipedia lists 71 minutes. Wikidata lists 86.
- It opened at the Rivoli in New York during the week of July 10, 1926. Copyright LP23057 is dated August 30, 1926.
- From Sinclair Lewis's novel of the same name.
Influenced by
- Sinclair Lewis's novel Mantrap
