Mantrap (1926 film)

Mantrap is a 1926 American silent comedy 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 was directed by Victor Fleming.

Woodbury (Pallette), who runs a ladies hosiery business across the hall, suggests that they get away from the city and camp in Mantrap, Canada.

Alverna throws a party and flirts, especially with Prescott, who is attracted to her but honorable enough to leave the next day.

In the introduction to their 1985 edition of Claude Lewis' journal of their Saskatchewan trip, John J. Koblas and Dave Page recount that while Sinclair Lewis was writing Elmer Gantry, he and his brother and Claude's wife went to the small theatre in Pequot Lake, where Sinclair was writing.

Mantrap (1926)
Mantrap ad in Motion Picture News , 1926