A Jitney Elopement (1915)

Directed by

Charlie Chaplin

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

33 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman wants to escape an arranged marriage. Charlie Chaplin's Tramp helps her run away. They are chased through San Francisco by her father and a taxi.

slapstickplayfulchaoticlightheartedfast-pacedromanticwhimsicalbumbling

What happens

A Jitney Elopement is a 1915 film and 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, and they are pursued by 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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