Short film
A Jitney Elopement
1915 · United States
A Jitney Elopement is a 1915 film and Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Purviance wanting Chaplin to take her away from an arranged marriage her father had planned for her. Chaplin does take her away, and they are pursued by a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the US between 1914 and 1916. Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the large windmills still on the park's west side.
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Trailer
Watch trailer on YouTube ↗- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Production
- Essanay Studios
- Cast
- Charlie Chaplin, Leo White, Lloyd Bacon, Carl Stockdale, Bud Jamison