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| A Jitney Elopement | |
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.jpg) Theatrical poster to A Jitney Elopement | |
| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Written by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Produced by | Jess Robbins |
| Starring | Charlie Chaplin Lloyd Bacon Ernest Van Pelt Edna Purviance Leo White |
| Cinematography | Harry Ensign |
| Edited by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Music by | Robert Israel (Kino video release) |
| Distributed by | Essanay Studios General Film Company |
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Running time | 33 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English (original intertitles) |
A Jitney Elopement was 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 (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Chaplin does take her away in 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.
