{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{italic title}} {{Infobox film | name = The Man Hunt | image = The_Man_Hunt_(1918)_-_2.jpg | alt = Half page advertisement for the American comedy drama film The Man Hunt (1918) with Ethel Clayton and two unidentified actors, on page 3 of the July 6, 1918 Exhibitors Herald. | caption = Half page advertisement for the American comedy drama film The Man Hunt (1918) with Ethel Clayton and two unidentified actors, on page 3 of the July 6, 1918 Exhibitors Herald | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Travers Vale | writer = Virginia Tyler Hudson<br>Frederick J. Jackson | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | producer = | starring = Ethel Clayton<br>Rockliffe Fellowes<br>Henry Warwick | narrator = | cinematography = Philip Hatkin | editing = | music = | studio = <!-- or: | production_companies = --> | distributor = World Film Company | released = {{Film date|1918|6|17}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Man Hunt''''' is a 1918 silent comedy drama film directed by Travers Vale.<ref name="daily mirror"/><ref>{{cite book|page=31|title=Hollywood on the Palisades: A Filmography of Silent Features Made in Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1903-1927|chapter=The Man Hunt|author=Rita Ecke Altomara|year=1983|isbn=9780824092252|publisher=Garland Publishing}}</ref> It used a story by Fred Jackson originally titled ''A Modern Girl'' and a scenario by Virginia Tyler Hudson.<ref name="History"/> Released by the New Jersey–based World Film Company,<ref name="daily mirror">{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e1DAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+Man+Hunt%22+1918+%22Travers+Vale%22&pg=RA1-PA925|title=The Picture's First Run Reported; The Man Hunt|page=925|date=June 29, 1918|journal=Dramatic Mirror}}</ref> the film consisted of five reels and was 50 minutes long.<ref name="History">{{cite journal|volume=1|year=1987|page=182|title=The Man Hunt|journal=Film History: An International Journal|editor=Richard Koszarski}}</ref> The film premiered on June 10, 1918.<ref name="Current">{{cite journal|title=Current and Coming Releases Viewed From The Box Office With The Story of the Picture: World, The Man Hunt|journal=Motography|date=June 22, 1918|page=1186|volume=XIX|number=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwxKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22The+Man+Hunt%22+1918+%22Travers+Vale%22&pg=PA1186}}</ref> The cinematographer was Philip Hatkin.<ref name="Current"/>
==Plot== Betty Hammond is extremely wealthy, single, and lonely; having come into a fortune only recently. She decides to find a husband, but all of the appropriate landed gentry and affluent men bore her, and she can never be certain whether her suitors want her or her money. She searches for James Ogden; a man with whom she was romantically attached to as a young girl but has not seen for many years. She finds him as a poor laborer in a lumber camp. Betty pretends to be a humble stenographer in order to conceal her wealth and societal position. The two renew their romance, and Betty now secure in the knowledge that she is loved for herself, reveals the truth in James.<ref name="daily mirror"/> He does not take it well, and she ends up kidnapping Ogden and a minister with aid of armed men stating she will not let them go until Ogden marries her.<ref name="Current"/> After further drama, all eventually ends happily in marriage.<ref name="daily mirror"/>
==Cast== * Ethel Clayton as Betty Hammond<ref name="History"/> * Rockliffe Fellowes as James Ogden<ref name="History"/> * Henry Warwick as English Lord<ref name="History"/> * John Ardizoni (credited as John Adrizonia) as French Count<ref name="History"/> * Herbert Barrington as Russian Prince<ref name="History"/> * Jack Drumier as Parson Brown<ref name="History"/> * Al Hart as Bigfoot Ben<ref name="History"/> * John Dungan as Lemuel Thomas<ref name="History"/>
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==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186333/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_56_wr The Man Hunt] at IMDb * {{TCMDb title|id=497387}} * {{AFI film|15055}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Man Hunt, The}} Category:American silent comedy-drama films Category:1918 films Category:1918 comedy-drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films with screenplays by Frederick J. Jackson Category:World Film Company films