A Jitney Elopement

A Jitney Elopement
Theatrical poster to A Jitney Elopement
Directed by	Charlie Chaplin
Produced by	Jess Robbins
Written by	Charlie Chaplin
Starring	Charles Chaplin Lloyd Bacon Ernest Van Pelt Edna Purviance Leo White
Music by	Robert Israel (Kino video release)
Cinematography	Harry Ensign
Edited by	Charlie Chaplin
Distributed by	Essanay Studios General Film Company
Release dates	April 1, 1915
Running time	33 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English (original intertitles)

Full film

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.

A scene filmed in Golden Gate Park

Synopsis

Purviance's father wants her to marry wealthy Count Chloride de Lime. Chaplin, Purviance's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner.

Cast

Charles Chaplin - Suitor, the Fake Count
Edna Purviance - Edna
Ernest Van Pelt - Edna's father
Leo White - Count Chloride de Lime, Edna's Suitor
Lloyd Bacon - Young Butler / Cop (uncredited)
Paddy McGuire - Old Butler/Cop
Bud Jamison - Cop with Baton
Carl Stockdale - Cop
Fred Goodwins - Undetermined role

External links

A Jitney Elopement at the Internet Movie Database
A Jitney Elopement is available for free download at the Internet Archive
A Jitney Elopement on YouTube

Films directed by Charlie Chaplin

Keystone Studios (1914)	Twenty Minutes of Love Caught in the Rain A Busy Day Her Friend the Bandit Mabel's Married Life Laughing Gas The Face on the Bar Room Floor Recreation The Masquerader His New Profession The Rounders The Property Man The New Janitor Those Love Pangs Dough and Dynamite Gentlemen of Nerve His Musical Career His Trysting Place Getting Acquainted His Prehistoric Past

Essanay Studios (1915)	His New Job A Night Out The Champion In the Park A Jitney Elopement The Tramp By the Sea His Regeneration Work A Woman The Bank Shanghaied A Night in the Show A Burlesque on Carmen Police Triple Trouble

Mutual Film Corp (1916–17)	The Floorwalker The Fireman The Vagabond One A.M. The Count The Pawnshop Behind the Screen The Rink Easy Street The Cure The Immigrant The Adventurer

First National (1918–23)	A Dog's Life The Bond Shoulder Arms Sunnyside A Day's Pleasure The Professor The Kid The Idle Class Pay Day The Pilgrim

United Artists (1923–52)	A Woman of Paris The Gold Rush The Circus City Lights Modern Times The Great Dictator Monsieur Verdoux Limelight

Later productions	A King in New York A Countess from Hong Kong

See also	The Chaplin Revue The Freak

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