The Man Hunt is a 1918 silent comedy drama film directed by Travers Vale.

[1][2] It used a story by Fred Jackson originally titled A Modern Girl and a scenario by Virginia Tyler Hudson.

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.

Betty pretends to be a humble stenographer in order to conceal her wealth and societal position.