A Gasoline Wedding
About A Gasoline Wedding
Harold, a poor boy, wants to marry Bebe, whose father has picked a rich older suitor. Bebe hears them planning a kidnapping, dresses the butler in her clothes, and runs off with Harold. Both couples reach the minister. The rich suitor marries the butler by mistake, and Harold and Bebe are wed.
Cast & crew
More about A Gasoline Wedding
Hal Roach produced the one-reeler for Pathé Exchange. Alfred J. Goulding directed, H. M. Walker wrote the titles, and Walter Lundin photographed it. Lord Heath dates the shooting to November 13–20, 1917, production number L-17, with a release on March 3, 1918. It had been scheduled for February 10 and was reissued on July 30, 1922.
Themes
Look
Walter Lundin photographed the Rolin one-reeler during the November 13–20, 1917 shoot.
Preservation
Prints are at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the British Film Institute National Archive.
Notes
- Harold Lloyd plays the boy and Bebe Daniels the girl. Gus Leonard plays her father, and Billy Fay the minister.
- Snub Pollard, William Blaisdell, Sammy Brooks, and Lige Conley are in the cast.
- Silent Era lists prints at UCLA and at the British Film Institute National Archive.
Scenes
- Bebe puts her clothes on the butler and leaves with Harold.
- The rich suitor discovers he has married the butler.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
