Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.
Watch the official They Would Elope 1909 trailer in HD below.
Billy Quirk as Harry
Mary Pickford as Bessie
James Kirkwood as The Father
Kate Bruce as The Mother
Stanner E.V. Taylor Writer
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
Percy Higginson Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith Director
United States 09 August 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
23 July 1909
Pathé film #2871. In a hotel, a weary traveler settles down to rest. But, hallucinations brought on by fatigue: monsters appear around the bed, which vanishes, while the traveler, thrown to the floor, gets up and grabs a chair.
21 August 1909
A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters, and Nero, hoping to divert the public wrath from his own misconduct, has encouraged the persecution of the growing sect of Christians.
04 November 1909
Out for a stroll, the short-sighted governess is more absorbed in her paper than in governing, leading to a series of unfortunate events, not least returning home with a boy instead of the daughter of the house.
01 July 1909
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
17 May 1909
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman.
03 November 1909
Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.
10 August 1909
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box.
22 May 1909
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
27 February 1909
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star.
08 December 1909
Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.
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