Ethel Walker and Tom Phelps are engaged to marry, but father objects. Later, when the old gentleman finds his daughter writing a note to Tom, promising him to elope, he calls in blacksmiths and has them put bars on the windows and grating in the door.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Tom Phelps
Arthur Mackley as Colonel Walker
Edna Fisher as Ethel Walker
Harry Todd as The Reverend
R. Henry Grey as The Real Dentist
Gilbert M. Anderson Director
United States 31 October 1911
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1911:
07 March 1911
An electric current accidentally brings a female mummy back to life with decidedly romantic inclinations, much to the surprise of a young Egyptologist and his less than understanding fiancée.
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.
22 September 1911
A celebrated man who was married five times said on one occasion, "The most trying thing about getting married is the fool tricks one's fool friends play.
25 April 1911
Two brothers, of good old New England stock. Love the same maid, but she loves one a great deal more than the other, so when war breaks out Jim decides to go, and is one of the first volunteers.
26 January 1911
Mary is from Boston, and she doesn't just take to the cow punchers as she would to the "rah-rah boys" of the Hub.
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.
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.
23 February 1911
Bob Ford, a young college graduate and a man-about-town, self-willed and wild, who tries his father's patience and generosity by going the limit, is called to a sudden halt by the old gentleman and sent out west with his valet to work on Jones' ranch in Texas and prove to his father that he is not a hopeless renegade.
09 May 1911
The construction of a new railroad, designed to bring prosperity to a section of the country, brings sorrow to one home.
24 April 1911
Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.
24 September 1911
REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl.
23 March 1911
The punchers of the XL outfit are wild with joy, 'cause Mary, the idol of the ranch, is comin' home from college.
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