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
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