Man Bait (1926 film)

{{short description|1926 film by Donald Crisp}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Man Bait

| image = Man Bait lobby card.JPG

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Donald Crisp

| producer =

| writer = Douglas Z. Doty

| based_on = {{basedon|"Man Bait"|Norman Houston}}

| starring = {{ubl|Marie Prevost|Douglas Fairbanks Jr.|Kenneth Thomson}}

| music =

| editing =

| cinematography = Harold Rosson

| studio = Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California

| distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation

| released = {{film date|1926|12|27}}[https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ManBait1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: Man Bait] at silentera.com

| runtime = 6 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Man Bait is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Marie Prevost, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Kenneth Thomson.{{Cite web|title=Man Bait (1926) - Overview, TCM.com|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/497252/man-bait|access-date=September 8, 2020|website=Turner Classic Movies|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=McCaffrey|first=Donald W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdEPgRJyVPIC&pg=PA95|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|last2=Jacobs|first2=Christopher P.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=95|isbn=978-0-313-30345-6|language=en}}Vance & Maietta [https://books.google.com/books?id=e3DVBxGQ95YC&pg=PA198 p. 198]

Plot

After she is fired from her role as a shopgirl in a department store, Madge finds work as a taxi dancer. At the dance hall she meets and falls in love with a young man from a wealthy background.

Cast

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Preservation

With no prints of Man Bait located in any film archives, it is a lost film.[https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/Lost%20silent.updated_122916.pdf List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29. (last updated 12/29/16)] Library of Congress (PDF)

References

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Bibliography

  • Jeffrey Vance & Tony Maietta. [https://books.google.com/books?id=e3DVBxGQ95YC Douglas Fairbanks]. University of California Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-520-25667-5}}