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  • A Houseboat Elopement (1913)
  • Short | 11 min | Comedy, Short
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A Houseboat Elopement (1913)
Short | 11 min | Comedy, Short
Mr. O.U. Grouch sits with Mrs. Grouch on their houseboat, he intent on his fishing. Buster Grouch, a small boy, manages to get a shoe on his father's line, which makes him very mad. It is at this inauspicious moment that William U.R. Fresh...See moreMr. O.U. Grouch sits with Mrs. Grouch on their houseboat, he intent on his fishing. Buster Grouch, a small boy, manages to get a shoe on his father's line, which makes him very mad. It is at this inauspicious moment that William U.R. Fresh, urged by Lotta Grouch, proposes to Grouch for his daughter's hand. Grouch roars, "NO," and tells William to get. He does and Buster gets what is coming to him. Lotta tells William to get her father out fishing and not to come back until he has obtained his consent. This is not difficult, for Grouch loves fishing. William holds him in a motorboat until he is so sick that he promises anything if William will take him ashore. William does. In the meantime I.B. Stout has arrived and has proposed to and been turned down by Lotta. When Grouch gets on terra-firma and sees Stout, the man he wants his girl to marry, he goes back on his promise to William and kicks him out again. Grouch tells Lotta she will marry Stout and locks her in her room. Buster, having been severely spanked by Stout for playing tricks upon him, awaits his chance and tells Lotta that Grouch and her mother have gone to get a license. Lotta slips a note to Buster under the door and Buster delivers it to William, who runs to the sheriff's and gets a license while the others are hunting for the minister. William gets back and kicks the door in, and as Grouch and his wife return. Buster cuts the houseboat adrift. The houseboat travels along and Mr. Grouch and Stout take someone else's boat and go after them. Stout gets into all sorts of trouble, for he knows nothing of the management of a motorboat. The minister is out boating. William runs him down and saves him from the water and makes him marry them. The owner of the motorboat swims out to his craft and properly punishes the occupants, as the young married couple make their way back for the parental blessing. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Pat Powers
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Updated Oct 1, 1913
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Oct 1, 1913 (United States)

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