A Gasoline Wedding Directed By Alfred J Goulding

A Gasoline WeddingDirected byAlfred J. GouldingWritten byH. M. WalkerProduced byHal RoachStarringHarold LloydCinematographyWalter LundinRelease date March 3, 1918 Running time9 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent English intertitles A Gasoline Wedding is a 1918 American short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.[1] PlotHarold plays a poor boy intent on wooing well-to-do Bebe. Her father would prefer she marry a much older but wealthy suitor whom Bebe considers to be a "neanderthal". When Bebe hears her father concocting a kidnapping plot with the rich suitor, she dresses her butler in her clothes and flees with Harold. Both couples arrive at the minister's house. The rich suitor does not realize he has actually "married" the butler until Harold and Bebe are wed. CastHarold Lloyd as The BoySnub PollardBebe DanielsWilliam BlaisdellSammy BrooksLige Conley (credited as Lige Cromley)William GillespieMaynard Laswell (credited as M.A. Laswell)James Parrott ReceptionLike many American films of the time, A Gasoline Wedding was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of two closeups of a coin.[2] Survival statusPrints of the film are held in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the BFI National Archive.[1] References1 "Progressive Silent Film List: A Gasoline Wedding". silentera.com. Retrieved November 30, 2009. 2 "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (13). New York: Exhibitors Herald Company: 29. March 23, 1918.

Director

Alfred J. Goulding