Mantrap (1926) on Netflix
Ralph Prescott, a New York divorce lawyer, is tired of his clients. He camps in Mantrap, Canada, and meets Alverna, a manicurist married to storekeeper Joe Easter and bored with the backwoods.
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Plot summary
Ralph Prescott practices divorce law in New York and has had enough of his clients. Across the hall, E. Wesson Woodbury runs a ladies hosiery business, and he proposes that the two of them leave the city and camp at Mantrap in Canada. Bachelor Joe Easter keeps a dry-goods store in Mantrap, and he travels to Minneapolis for female company. In a barbershop there he meets Alverna, a flirtatious manicurist, who agrees to have dinner with him. Prescott and Woodbury quarrel while camping, and Joe breaks them up by taking Prescott back to Mantrap. There Prescott finds Alverna married to Joe and bored by backwoods life. She throws a party, where she flirts, and Prescott, attracted to her, plans to leave in the morning.
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- Charlotte Birdas Stenographer
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mantrap (1926)
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- After a theater manager recognized Sinclair Lewis in the audience and called him on stage, Lewis told the moviegoers he was glad he had read the book, because he would not have recognized it from the movie.
