Mantrap (1926 film)

Mantrap is a 1926 American blackandwhite silent film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Mantrap stars Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Victor Fleming.

Bachelor Joe Easter Torrence runs a drygoods store in Mantrap. Joe, wanting female company, goes to Minneapolis. In a barbershop there, backwoods Joe meets flirtatious manicurist Alverna Bow, who agrees to meet Joe for dinner.Prescott and Woodbury fight while camping. Joe separates them by taking Prescott back to Mantrapwhere Prescott meets Alverna, now married to Joe and bored with backwoods life. Alverna throws a party and flirts, especially with Prescott, whos attracted to her but honorable enough to leave the next day. Alverna waits for Prescotts outbound canoe, stops him, and tells him that shes leaving with him. Alverna insults their Native American guide, who takes the canoe, leaving Prescott and Alverna on their own in the woods. They flag down a passing float plane, which lands in the lake. Alverna flirts with the pilot, angering Prescott. The pilot leaves them some food. ........

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