Seeing's Believing

50 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Seeing's Believing is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Viola Dana, Allan Forrest, and Gertrude Astor.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[2] Diana Webster (Dana), a willful young woman with plenty of money, and Jimmy Harrison (McCullough), her Aunt Sue's (Astor) fiancé, are forced to stay all night in a country hotel because of a storm. Getting a single room, they pretend they are married to satisfy the concerns of the hotel manager. Jimmy sleeps on a cot in the hall, but hotel guest Bruce Terring (Forrest) does not know this. Later, Bruce meets Diana at her home where he is a guest, and his scandalous interpretation of her escapade infuriates the young woman. She decides to teach him a lesson and show him that "seeing is not always believing" by placing him in a similar unusual position. She hires an actor and his wife to frame a badger game on Bruce. However, the couple double-cross her and Diana is forced into a blackmailing scheme which forces Bruce to rescue her, resulting in a snappy but happy ending for Bruce and Diana.

Cast

• Viola Dana as Diana Webster
• Allan Forrest as Bruce Terring
• Gertrude Astor as Aunt Sue
• Philo McCullough as Jimmy Harrison
• Harold Goodwin as Hack Webster
• Edward Connelly as Henry Scribbins
• Josephine Crowell as Martha Scribbins
• Colin Kenny as Mr. Reed
• Grace Morse as Mrs. Reed
• J.P. Lockney as Sheriff

References

Bibliography

• James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. Film Directors: a Guide to their American Films. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

• Seeing's Believing at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie