Mantrap
Cast & Crew
Victor Fleming
Ernest Torrence
Clara Bow
Percy Marmont
Eugene Pallette
Tom Kennedy
Film Details
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Synopsis
Ralph Prescott, a New York bachelor lawyer, throughly despises women, having to listen constantly to their excuses for seeking a divorce. To escape them he agrees to go on a camping trip with Mr. Woodbury to Mantrap Landing in the Canadian woods. Woodbury soon tires of Ralph's pampered condition, and they part ways after woodsman Joe Easter separates them in a fight. Joe takes Ralph to his trading post and there introduces him to Alverna, his wife, a former manicurist, who immediately begins to flirt with him; she pleads to be taken back to civilization when he leaves, and she joins him against his wishes. Ralph swears he will ask Joe to divorce her; then they are stranded when his canoe is stolen and are rescued by an aviator who is en route to a forest fire. Alverna tries to vamp the aviator; Joe arrives; and when Ralph admits his agreement to her plan, Alverna rejects both of them. Later, she promises to be faithful to Joe, but he realizes she will always be a coquette.
Director
Victor Fleming
Cast
Ernest Torrence
Clara Bow
Percy Marmont
Eugene Pallette
Tom Kennedy
Josephine Crowell
William Orlamond
Charles Stevens
Miss Du Pont
Charlot Bird
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Paramount produced another adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel in 1940, under the title Untamed. That film was directed by George Archainbaud and starred Ray Milland and Patricia Morison (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-40).
