30 December 1911 Western 14 mins
Fairfax, California, is the location used for this film, one of the earliest Broncho Billy films. Anderson includes his usual mix of comedy and drama as Broncho Billy gets caught in the middle of a family dispute between a jealous hotel owner and his daughter when she flirts with her boyfriend, a cowboy her father dislikes.
Watch the official Broncho Billy's Adventure 1911 trailer in HD below.
Gilbert M. Anderson as Broncho Billy
Arthur Mackley as Hotel Keeper
Edna Fisher as Tavern Owner's Daughter
Fred Church as Tavern Owner's Daughter's Sweetheart
Victor Potel as Cowboy
Kite Robinson as Cowboy
Patrick Rooney as Cowboy
Augustus Carney as Dr. A Carney
Broncho Billy and the Maid Trailer
United States 30 December 1911
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1911:
16 November 1911
The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married woman and is devastated.
10 April 1911
From a window in Fabiola's house, Sebastian watches the Christians being taken to their cells, and as he listens to the shrieks and curses of the multitude his heart is stirred with pity.
12 July 1911
Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gathering animals for circus purposes, the other is led by an old animal tamer named Desmond and his beautiful daughter, whom the natives have nicknamed Capt.
28 December 1911
While painting the demure little model, Vera, who sat for him day after day, Reginald Spencer was unconscious of the fact that she was falling very deeply in love with him.
04 September 1911
A white woodsman rescues Little Dove from danger on two occasions and she crushes out on him... but wiser heads prevail.
12 January 1911
Lorna is a woman and she is all business when it comes to running the "L.L." Ranch and she has no trouble in handling it and the "boys" who work for her, especially "Jeff," her foreman, who gives her a hand.
03 March 1911
The setting is the Mexican Revolution and friends Pedro and Alvarez get a message to transport some weapons across the border.
02 October 1911
On a holiday, the family Gram meets a young, mysterious man who turns out to be a Mormon. In spite of her fiancèe's presence, the daughter Nina is drawn to the stranger.
18 May 1911
A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
13 March 1911
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
13 July 1911
A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight.
20 February 1911
Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1911 The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company.
