Believe Me, Xantippe

A story of the East and West with all the pep, tang and vigor of American Manhood.

Believe Me, Xantippe — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 2, 1918
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Romance
• Director
• Donald Crisp

Believe Me, Xantippe — Cast

Wallace Reid George MacFarland Ann Little Dolly Kamman Ernest Joy Thornton Brown Henry Woodward Arthur Sole Noah Beery Sheriff Kamman James Cruze Simp Calloway Winifred Greenwood Violette Jim Farley Detective Thorne