A Jitney Elopement
- Charles Chaplin: Charlie
- Edna Purviance Edna
- Ernest Van Pelt: Edna's father
- Leo White: Count Chloride de Lime
- Lloyd Bacon: Young Butler / Cop
- Paddy McGuire: Age Butler / Cop
- Bud Jamison: policeman
Kidnapping an American silent film actor and director Charles Chaplin from 1915.
Action
Edna is a daughter of a good family, and accordingly her father wants to marry also good. So it is very convenient to him that Count Chloride de Lime wants for her hand (but greed and money ). Edna, however, is in love with the penniless Charlie and desperate about the impending forced marriage. The called of her aid mistress decides to introduce themselves as Count Chloride de Lime at Edna's father. He is also received with open arms and invited to dinner. Despite the somewhat getting used to the manners Charlie's evening takes a cheerful course until the correct Count Chloride de Lime logs. Charlie's Masquerade on flying and he is banished from the house. Now, the actual count is familiar with Edna. The elegant master invites Father and daughter take a trip to the park. With a Münztaxi ( " Jitney " ) they are on their way. In the park soon appeared on Charlie and the animosity between him and the Count to track down. After Charlie Edna has depressed father and the situation is complicated by hurrying to the aid of police, Charlie and Edna escape in Münztaxi the count. Father, Earl and police are pursuing the pair with a short hand seized car. It begins a wild chase that ends for the pursuers, including car in the river and the couple leaves happy.
Background
The film is one of the earliest in which the Tramp shows his romantic side, which was further expanded in the following work, The Tramp. He falls into a more leisurely first half, which takes place at the home of Edna's father, and a faster second outside. The second half is again divided into a " park - comedy" and a car chase. Charlie kidnaps Edna in a Jitney, a coin-operated taxi, which was distributed in the U.S. 1914-1916. " Jitney " is also an obsolete term for a nickel.
In the first part of the film contains a gag, the Chaplin had already been presented in his time as a theater actor in Fred Karno on stage: At Dinner with Edna and her father, he cuts a loaf of bread thoughtfully to an accordion. Climax of the movie is the car chase, the rather unspectacular fails in comparison to contemporary Sennett films. In a panoramic setting the cars waltz dance with each other and go, confused by the circular blades of a windmill, in a circle. This scene was shot in the San Francisco Golden Gate Park at the Murphy Windmill. It is also interesting that it is the muddy track, the use the car to the Great Highway is today.