Steve O'Dare
Douglas Fairbanks
Steve O'Dare
Manhattan Madness
“A photoplay that is far different and better than any you've seen heretofore”
5.5
1916
50m
ComedyWestern
Director: Allan Dwan
Overview
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.
Cast
The Girl
Jewel Carmen
The Girl
The Butler
George Beranger
The Butler
The Maid
Ruth Darling
The Maid
Count Winkie
Eugene Ormonde
Count Winkie
Cupid Russell
John Richmond
Cupid Russell
Count's Confederate
Macey Harlam
Count's Confederate
Country Club Patron (uncredited)
Adolphe Menjou
Country Club Patron (uncredited)
Country Club Patron with Monocle (uncredited)
Norman Kerry
Country Club Patron with Monocle (uncredited)
The Nevada Chum (uncredited)
Albert MacQuarrie
The Nevada Chum (uncredited)
Jack Osborne (uncredited)
Warner Richmond
Jack Osborne (uncredited)
Reviews
CinemaSerf
This film actually belongs to Jewel Carmen, her character not given a name, but she certainly has the measure of the show-off "Steve" (Douglas Fairbanks). He plays a cowboy who returns to the Big Apple from his Nevada home and, unimpressed with their big, but sterile, city regales everyone with his tales of hide and horses. They decide to enact their revenge with a mock kidnap plot, but soon they begin to regret it! There's a fun chemistry between Fairbanks and Carmen, but the story is a little lacklustre and the comedy a bit too much on the slapstick side for my liking. The polished production is great, though - the lighting and editing remarkable for the time, and there is some nice location photography from both locations, but 50 minutes is too long for the rather over-stretched story. One for fans to enjoy, I think - otherwise a bit bland.
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