Summary
A swaggering engineer fresh from blasting African gold mines strides into Gatsby-era Manhattan, sparking a wager as brittle as Prohibition gin: can a footlight-struck debutante seduce the misogynist hero in seven nights? She succeeds—then the script flips. Learning he’s merely a pawn in her theatrical ambition, the tuxedoed caveman spirits her to a Catskill lodge, shackles her ankle to the bear-skin rug, and invites chaos in the form of a self-appointed Napoleon, two soused rum-runners, and a scandal-hungry reporter. Amid pratfalls, thunderclaps, and a bear trap of reversed gender politics, the ‘kidnapped’ flirt discovers the very primitive ardor she feigned to sell tickets.
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Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen Steele and her playwright fiancé Tracey. Scheming to win the lead in their new production, The Siren , Helen wagers Cannell and Tracey that she can vamp Jack--a notorious woman-hater--and have him propose to her in a week. She succeeds, but when Jack learns of the ruse, he resolves to teach her a lesson in primitive emotions. When she teases Jack about him kidnapping her as natives in Africa do to their prospective mates, he takes her away to his mountain lodge. There, comic escapades follow, including his chaining her ankle and the arrival of various characters--a lunatic who imagines himself to be Napoleon, two drunks, a reporter and Tracey. At the end, Jack's caveman tactics have won the heart of Helen, and she agrees to be his wife.
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