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:
11 April 1911
In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
01 March 1911
George Petit, the son of a bank cashier is a heavy gambler. After losing a significant amount of money at cards, he becomes desperate to recover his losses.
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.
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).
24 September 1911
REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl.
13 August 1911
A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirates and buried treasure.
10 July 1911
A lost film. Flora Powell and Arthur Lennox are lovers, but the girl's stern father has other plans for his daughter, preferring the Rev.
31 August 1911
A lost film. Dan Gardner, a young man, is down and out. Arrested as a tramp, he is thrown into jail. He is released with but a single coin in his pocket.
24 August 1911
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband.
24 June 1911
Solomon keeps a clothing store, he has in stock two overcoats of exactly the same make and pattern. Michael Gallagher, who is passing by and in need of an outer garment, notices Solomon's display and buys one of the coats.
13 February 1911
A lost film. A Teacher is struggling to control her classroom. Her failure has evidently reached the ears of the members of the board of education, and a committee of the guardians of public instruction visits the school.
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