Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)
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.
Director: Donald Crisp
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Wallace Reid as George MacFarland |
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Ann Little as Dolly Kamman |
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Ernest Joy as Thornton Brown |
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Henry Woodward as Arthur Sole |
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Noah Beery as Sheriff Kamman |
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James Cruze as Simp Calloway |
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Winifred Greenwood as Violette |
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Jim Farley as Detective Thorne |
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Charles Ogle as Wrenn Wrgley |
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Clarence Geldart as Williams |
| Directing | Donald Crisp | Director |
| Writing | John Frederick Ballard | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Olga Printzlau | Writer |
| Camera | Henry Kotani | Director of Photography |
| Production | Jesse L. Lasky | Producer |
