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A Motorcycle Elopement
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by C. Jay Williams (C.J. Williams)
Cast: Arthur Cozine [Jack Dare], Jewell Hunt [Bessie Norwood],Bruce Montague [Mr. Norwood, Bessie’s father]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Frank Bennett. / Released 18 November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jack Dare and Bessie Norwood decide to elope after father forbids Jack to call. Both the young people are fond of motorcycling, and often steal out for a spin in Jack’s little tri-car, one of those motorcycles with a little tonneau attached at the side. Father is going to carry off his daughter to boarding school in his big car, and Jack, on learning this, tells Bessie in a note to extract all but a quart of gasoline from Dad’s car, while he will follow in his motorcycle to pick her up and whisk her off to the parson’s. Unfortunately, the note gets into Dad’s hands, and he turns the tables on Jack. Father and Bessie start for the boarding school, and in a lonely spot Dad pretends the gas has given out. He leaves the car, Jack comes up, steals her away, and a short distance beyond the gasoline in his tri-car gives out. Poor Bessie is left in that dark and spooky road while he goes after gas, with the result that an hour later, when Dad shows up in his car, she weepingly begs to be taken home, to boarding school, or anywhere, away from that dreadful Jack! So Jack’s motorcycle elopement is a flat failure, and he has to walk 10 miles back to town.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 June 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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