Believe Me Xantippe
Cast & Crew
Donald Crisp
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Ernest Joy
Henry Woodward
Noah Beery
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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. With the stroke of midnight, the year elapses and George wins the bet as well as the sheriff's daughter.
Director
Donald Crisp
Cast
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Ernest Joy
Henry Woodward
Noah Beery
James Cruze
Winifred Greenwood
James Farley
Charles Ogle
Clarence Geldert
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The play, one of the first Harvard Prize plays, was copyrighted on November 18, 1912. Its production before the New York opening has not been determined.
