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:
09 June 1911
A young millionaire, whose hobby is mechanics, takes his newly overhauled car out for a trial spin, and he would have laughed had anybody told him that it was to be the most eventful trip of his life.
16 February 1911
A young man is tortured by a duke to force his beloved to marry the duke. The woman sacrifices herself, but eventually manages to discourage the duke's attentions.
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.
09 February 1911
Mr. and Mrs. Parker leave their apartment to the care of their servants, Riley and his wife, while Mrs.
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.
02 October 1911
A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country.
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.
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.
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.
31 July 1911
According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats.
15 February 1911
Billy and His Pal, released on February 16, 1911, is about a cowboy, Jim (Francis Ford), who is idolised by young Billy (actress Edith Storey in drag).
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