ComedyWestern

Manhattan Madness

- A photoplay that is far different and better than any you've seen heretofore

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.

Release Date : 1916-10-01

Language :No Language

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Fine Arts Film Company

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Steve O'Dare

Original Name : Douglas Fairbanks

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Girl

Original Name : Jewel Carmen

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Butler

Original Name : George Beranger

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Maid

Original Name : Ruth Darling

Gender : Female

Character Name : Count Winkie

Original Name : Eugene Ormonde

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cupid Russell

Original Name : John Richmond

Gender : Male

Character Name : Count's Confederate

Original Name : Macey Harlam

Gender : Female

Character Name : Country Club Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Adolphe Menjou

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-06

This film actually belongs to Jewel Carmen, her character not given a name, but she certainly has the measure of the show-off "Steve" (Douglas Fairbanks). He plays a cowboy who returns to the Big Apple from his Nevada home and, unimpressed with their big, but sterile, city regales everyone with his tales of hide and horses. They decide to enact their revenge with a mock kidnap plot, but soon they begin to regret it! There's a fun chemistry between Fairbanks and Carmen, but the story is a little lacklustre and the comedy a bit too much on the slapstick side for my liking. The polished production is great, though - the lighting and editing remarkable for the time, and there is some nice location photography from both locations, but 50 minutes is too long for the rather over-stretched story. One for fans to enjoy, I think - otherwise a bit bland.