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Love, Luck and Gasoline
Also known as Amor, suerte y gasolina in Venezuela
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Wilfrid North
Cast: John Bunny [Miss Tomboy’s father], Lillian Walker [Miss Tomboy], Wally Van [Cutey], Charles Wellesley [Van Alstyne], J. Stuart Blackton [The Commodore, a motorboat enthusiast]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated [Broadway Star]. / Scenario by J. Stuart Blackton. / Premiered 13 April 1914 in New York, New York. Released 1 May 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / This film was part of the first program at the Vitagraph Theatre in New York, New York.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bunny’s daughter, Lillian, is quite justly known as Miss Tomboy. She returns the love of Cutey, a wealthy young chap, whom Bunny does not favor. Bunny does his best to prevent meetings between his daughter and Cutey, so everything develops into a battle of wits between Bunny and the combined forces of Miss Tomboy and Cutey. Bunny becomes owner of a fast sailboat, just about the time Miss Tomboy wins a swimming race in which she wears a boy’s costume. For this prank, her father locks her in her room for a week, taking all her pretty clothes away from her. While she is in this dilemma, Cutey learns that Bunny’s captain has been taken ill, a fact which will probably cause Bunny to lose the race in which his new sailboat is entered. Cutey figures that Miss Tomboy can sail the boat to victory, so he succeeds in getting a suit of his clothes to the girl. She climbs down the porch, and true to his prediction, proves herself the winner. Bunny is delighted until he learns that it was his daughter who so ably handled his fast little craft. Then his delight turns to chagrin and he determines to marry Miss Tomboy off to his friend, Van Alstyne, an impossible being for Miss Tomboy. She determines to elope with Cutey and sends him word to have his fast steam yacht ready to make a rush for Newport. Van Alstyne learns of the scheme, advises Bunny, and they start in pursuit in Bunny’s steam yacht, a much faster vessel. In his dilemma, Cutey sends a wireless to his friend who owns a fifty-mile-an-hour racing motor boat. Immediately the friend sets out and soon passes Bunny’s yacht and overtakes Cutey and Miss Tomboy, taking them aboard and starting another race for Newport. Bunny, in determination, starts after the speedy motor boat in a hydro-aeroplane. Miss Tomboy sees him coming and Cutey hurries to shore and succeeds in getting a racing monoplane. Bunny, in his anxiety to have his aviator overtake the monoplane, falls out of the flying boat into the water, being rescued by his daughter and Cutey. The battle of wits convinces Bunny that Cutey would make a worthy son-in-law so he gives his consent. Cutey and Miss Tomboy fly across the sea to happiness just as Van Alstyne hurriedly arrives. He is too late, and Bunny’s sense of humor permits him to enjoy a good laugh at the expense of the crestfallen Van Alstyne.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Boats: Motor - Chases - Swings - Transportation: Airplanes - Yachts
Listing updated: 14 December 2024.
References: Blum-Silent p. 38; Lahue-World p. 16; Tarbox-Lost p. 182 : Website-IMDb.
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