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A Jitney Elopement (1915)

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A Jitney Elopement (1915)

Name: A Jitney Elopement
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1915-04-01
Rating: 6

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25m

Running Time

Plot.

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.

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Cast & Crew.

Charlie Chaplin

Suitor, the Fake Count / Director / Writer / Editor

Edna Purviance

Edna

Ernest Van Pelt

Edna's Father

Leo White

Count Chloride de Lime, Edna's Suitor

Lloyd Bacon

Young Butler / Cop

Paddy McGuire

Old Butler / Cop

Bud Jamison

Cop with Baton

Carl Stockdale

Cop

Fred Goodwins

Undetermined Role

Harry Ensign

Director of Photography

Jess Robbins

Producer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 1, 1915

Status
Released

Running Time
25m

Content Rating
NR

Filming Locations
Golden Gate Park, United States

Genres
Comedy

Last updated: 2024-10-08

This Movie Is About.

black and white

silent film

short

Wiki.

A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Purviance wanting Chaplin to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Chaplin does take her away in a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the large windmills still on the park's west side.