The Unusual Honeymoon
About The Unusual Honeymoon
On their honeymoon, Thomas and Mary MacGregor go to a village fair. Mary gets Thomas into a balloon basket. Boys cut the ropes. The balloon carries them until it drops on an island. The people there take the couple for gods come down from the sky. Thomas pushes the king aside and rules. Once the islanders decide the pair are only human, they prepare to kill and cook them. The night before, Thomas and Mary reach the shore, hail a ship, and a boat takes them off. James Young directed. Flora Finch, Charles Edwards, and Rose Tapley are billed. Vitagraph produced it.
Cast & crew
More about The Unusual Honeymoon
The outline above is the synopsis carried with the catalog record, in the shape of a period plot summary. No reel length is attached to it. An Internet Archive identifier is silent-the-unusual-honeymoon.
Themes
Making
Vitagraph plays the honeymoon as one accident: a fairground balloon, a cut rope, and a rescue boat.
Notes
- The ascent is advertised for the afternoon of the fair. The boys, not the couple, cut the ropes.
- The islanders’ change of mind is what turns the gods into the next meal.
- Finch is the name Wikidata confirms in the cast. Edwards and Tapley are on the catalog cast list.
- Young directed. No writer is named in the research record.
Scenes
- Boys cut the balloon ropes while Thomas and Mary are in the basket.
- The islanders treat them as gods, then plan to cook them.
- A ship’s boat takes them off the beach.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-unusual-honeymoon)