Man Bait (1926 film)

Man Bait
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Directed byDonald Crisp
Written byDouglas Z. Doty
Based on"Man Bait"
by Norman Houston
Starring
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Production
company
Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • December 27, 1926 (1926-12-27)
[1]
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Man Bait is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Marie Prevost, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Kenneth Thomson.[2][3][4]

Plot

After she is fired from her role as a shopgirl in a department store, Madge finds work as a taxi dancer. At the dance hall she meets and falls in love with a young man from a wealthy background.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Man Bait located in any film archives, it is a lost film.[5]

References

  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Man Bait at silentera.com
  2. ^ "Man Bait (1926) - Overview, TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. ^ McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-30345-6.
  4. ^ Vance & Maietta p. 198
  5. ^ List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29. (last updated 12/29/16) Library of Congress (PDF)

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