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The Little Runaways
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Ed Morrissey (Edward Morrissey)
Cast: Jack Mulhall [Mr. Hilton], Irma Dawkins Mrs. Hilton], Zoe Bech (Zoe Rae) [the Hilton’s daughter], Gus Pixley [the Hilton’s gardener], Georgie Stone [the gardener’s son]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 17 July 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Daddy and Mama quarrel, and the little girl is very unhappy, and her nurse is more interested in popular novelists than in her welfare. Not until the family reaches its summer home does the lonely child find a real companion: the gardener’s son. On the day Mama’s friends visit, Daddy is shut up in his room after another tiff. The girl wanders through the house, and reaching for a flower on a table, accidentally smashes the vase. Mama promptly scolds her; Daddy, taking her part, makes matters worse. She wanders into the garden, convinced that nobody loves her. The gardener’s boy, of the same opinion, suggests that they go away together in search of new parents. By the lake they find a boat moored and are about to embark in it when the boy decides that he will first go for provisions. He has just looted the larder when his father enters and catches him. Explanations ensue, and the gardener rushes down to the lake, where the boat having drifted away, he has a long swim before rescuing the girl. Meanwhile, Daddy and Mama have missed her and are frantically searching the grounds. Joyful over her safe return, they reconcile.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 December 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : ClasIm-225 p. 46 : Website-IMDb.
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