A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
Watch the official Balked at the Altar 1908 trailer in HD below.
Mabel Stoughton as Female lead
United States 25 August 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
18 January 1908
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
21 November 1908
A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.
08 June 1908
Women turn into roses in this hand-coloured nitrate short from Gaumont.
31 January 1908
Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty to Prince Charming.
23 May 1908
A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.
23 September 1908
L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular fantasies.
16 October 1908
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
21 December 1908
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie.
03 November 1908
A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
18 November 1908
A woman falls asleep on a park bench. The Devil appears and summons an imp who takes the woman to his fantastic lair.
22 December 1908
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia.
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