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On His Wedding Day
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] Horace Davy or Horace Davey?
Cast: Neal Burns [the boy], Billie Rhodes [the girl], Harry Lyons [the boy’s chum]
Nestor Film Company production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Al E. Christie (Al Christie), from a screen story by Thomas Delmar. / © 8 June 1915 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. Released 15 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Universal release number 0581. The film was marketed in the USA with one-sheet posters. The film was released in Canada on 22 June 1915.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Universal Weekly, Volume VI, Number 24, 12 June 1915, page 31] The boy is engaged to be married to the girl and the date is set for three in the afternoon. He is an automobile salesman and, as fate wills on such occasions, he gets a call to take out a prospective customer for a demonstration. He takes the lady customer out and does not notify his girl as he thinks that he will be back in time for the wedding. / The lady is delighted with the car and insists on going further and further. The boy gets excited and increases his speed to get back in time. Unfortunately he returns through Weedville, where the cops are laying for speeders, and is caught. He is taken to the jail and refused bail in any amount. / The girl, meanwhile, has started all arrangements for the wedding and there only remains the arrival of the groom. They await in vain, for they can get no news of the boy. His chum is frantic with anxiety and proceeds to comb the city for him. They can get no news of him, so the wedding has to be postponed. / Next morning the girl reads in the paper that they have arrested the boy in company wit a woman for joy riding and that he is being held in jail without bail. The chum, too, gets word from him to come and get him out. The girl is overcome with shame at the plight her fiance is in and resolves to cast him aside. / The chum finally brings the two together and at the close of the ceremony the boy and his bride are on a fair way to their goal of happiness.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 December 2009.
References: Montgomery-Comedy p. ? : UnivWeekly-19150612 pp. 31, 34 : Website-IMDb.
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