The Man Hunt

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The Man Hunt
Directed by Travers Vale
Written by Virginia Tyler Hudson
Frederick J. Jackson
Starring Ethel Clayton
Rockliffe Fellowes
Henry Warwick
Cinematography Philip Hatkin
Distributed by World Film Company
Release date
  • June 17, 1918 (1918-06-17)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

The Man Hunt is a 1918 silent comedy drama film directed by Travers Vale. [1] [2] It used a story by Fred Jackson originally titled A Modern Girl and a scenario by Virginia Tyler Hudson. [3] Released by the New Jersey-based World Film Company, [1] the film consisted of five reels and was 50 minutes long. [3] The film premiered on June 10, 1918. [4] The cinematographer was Philip Hatkin. [4]

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Plot

Betty Hammond is extremely wealthy, single, and lonely; having come into a fortune only recently. She decides to find a husband, but all of the appropriate landed gentry and affluent men bore her, and she can never be certain whether her suitors want her or her money. She searches for James Ogden; a man with whom she was romantically attached to as a young girl but has not seen for many years. She finds him as a poor laborer in a lumber camp. Betty pretends to be a humble stenographer in order to conceal her wealth and societal position. The two renew their romance, and Betty now secure in the knowledge that she is loved for herself, reveals the truth in James. [1] He does not take it well, and she ends up kidnapping Ogden and a minister with aid of armed men stating she will not let them go until Ogden marries her. [4] After further drama, all eventually ends happily in marriage. [1]

Cast

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Picture's First Run Reported; The Man Hunt". Dramatic Mirror : 925. June 29, 1918.
  2. Rita Ecke Altomara (1983). "The Man Hunt". Hollywood on the Palisades: A Filmography of Silent Features Made in Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1903-1927. Garland Publishing. p. 31. ISBN   9780824092252.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Richard Koszarski, ed. (1987). "The Man Hunt". Film History: An International Journal. 1: 182.
  4. 1 2 3 "Current and Coming Releases Viewed From The Box Office With The Story of the Picture: World, The Man Hunt". Motography . XIX (25): 1186. June 22, 1918.