Believe Me, Xantippe (1918)

Believe Me, Xantippe

1918

Comedy Romance

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Donald Crisp

Cast

Ann Little as Dolly Kamman

Charles Ogle as Wrenn Wrgley

Clarence Geldart as Williams

Ernest Joy as Thornton Brown

Henry Woodward as Arthur Sole

James Cruze as Simp Calloway

Jim Farley as Detective Thorne

Noah Beery as Sheriff Kamman