A Jitney Elopement

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A Jitney Elopement
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Produced by Jess Robbins
Written by Charlie Chaplin
Starring Charles Chaplin
Lloyd Bacon
Ernest Van Pelt
Edna Purviance
Leo White
Music by Robert Israel (Kino video release)
Cinematography Harry Ensign
Editing by Charlie Chaplin
Distributed by Essanay Studios
General Film Company
Release date(s) April 1, 1915
Running time 33 minutes
Country Flag of United States United States
Language Silent
English (original titles)
IMDb profile

A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Charlie does take her away in a jitney, a type of share taxi popular in the United States 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 in the park's westside.


The Essanay films of Charlie Chaplin

His New Job (1915) • A Night Out (1915) The Champion (1915) • In The Park (1915) A Jitney Elopement (1915) • The Tramp (1915) By The Sea (1915) • His Regeneration (1915) Work (1915) A Woman (1915) The Bank (1915) Shanghaied (1915) • A Night in the Show (1915) Burlesque on Carmen (1915) Police (1916) Triple Trouble (1918)
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