Patsy’s Elopement (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 1915-02-22
Director: Percy Winter
Writers: Clay M. Greene
Language: None | English
Stars: Clarence Elmer , Patsy De Forest , William Rausher , Peter Lang , George S. Trimble , Edwin DeWolf , Carol Holloway , Marie Sterling
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Patsy's Elopement (United States of America) , Patsy's Elopement
Plot: Believing that he loves her, when in reality his attentions to Tilly are merely to spite his enemy Sykesy, Patsy continues to urge his suit with her instead of with Jane. Sykesy attacks Patsy on the veranda of the hotel and is thrown over the railing to the roadway, severely injured. A warrant is sworn out and after an exciting chase he becomes mired in a swamp and is captured. But the vengeful Sykesy, preferring to take the law into his own hands, refuses to prosecute his rival, who is discharged by the magistrate, while Jane locks Sykesy in his room to prevent his threatened murderous attack on her beloved Patsy. Sykesy climbs from his window, armed with a club. Jane discovers him and warns Patsy to flee. This he does, taking the compliant Tilly with him, instead of rewarding Jane for her persistent love of him. The runaways hurry away on a motorcycle. They are pursued by Uncle Grace and the constables in an automobile. Finding themselves in danger of capture, they leave the motorcycle, take to the river in a canoe and are capsized. They obtain dry clothes from a farmer. Still resolved to carry out the purpose of their thoughtless elopement, the two set out in their uncouth and ill-fitting raiment borrowed from the farmer's wife, and believing that there is something suspicious about their behavior, both clergymen and justice of the peace refuse to marry them. So they take refuge in a country hotel in separate rooms, Tilly assuring Patsy that their escapades are a foolish mistake, and that she has quite repented of her desire to marry him. Meanwhile the pursuit of the fugitives has been much alive, and seeing that they are certain to be captured, the faithful Jane, mounts a horse, sets out for the hotel where their whereabouts has been located by the constables, warns Patsy, places him on her horse, and he eludes pursuit by concealing himself in a cornfield while the repentant Tilly is taken home convinced that Patsy was never intended to be her mate.
IMDB:tt0896744