Mantrap

• Director: Victor Fleming
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• Genre: Romance
• Movie Type: Melodrama
• Themes: Infidelity, Love Triangles
• Main Cast: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Eugene Pallette, Tom Kennedy
• Release Year: 1926
• Country: US
• Run Time: 66 minutes

Plot

Clara Bow plays an inveterate flirt who impulsively marries much-older mountain man Ernest Torrence. When city lawyer Percy Marmont shows up on a camping trip, Bow can't help but lead the poor fellow on. He resists her advances, but finally succumbs, leading to disaster. Very typical of the silent films that catapulted jazz-baby Clara Bow to stardom in the late 1920s, Mantrap benefits immeasurably from Bow's boundless vivacity and from the breathtaking location photography by James Wong Howe. One nagging question: what does twentysomething Bow see in either of her superannuated leading men--particularly the cadaverous Percy Marmont? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Ernest Torrence - Joe Easter
• Clara Bow - Alverna
• Percy Marmont - Ralph Prescott
• Eugene Pallette - E. Wesson Woodbury
• Tom Kennedy - Curly Evans

Josephine Crowell - Mrs. McGavity; William Orlamond - Mr. McGavity; Charles Stevens - Lawrence Jackfish (Indian Guide); Miss Du Pont - Mrs. Barker

Credit

Victor Fleming - Director, James Wong Howe - Cinematographer, B.P. Schulberg - Producer, George Marion, Jr. - Intertitle Writer, Adelaide Heilbron - Screenwriter, Sinclair Lewis - Book Author

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