Volume II: Filmography Volume II: Filmography
April 5, 1910 (Tuesday)
Length: 960 feet
Character: Drama
Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan
Cameraman: Blair Smith
Cast: Frank H. Crane (Daddy), Fred Santley (Daddy's double), Isabelle Daintry (young lady for whom Daddy and his double contend)
SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, April 2, 1910:
"Hal Dunton is very much in love with Sue Post - in fact, too much to suit Sue's father. To drive the matrimony idea out of Sue's head, papa places her in a boarding school and instructs the boarding mistress to keep a sharp eye out for Hal. This lady does, and succeeds in defeating a plan on the young people's part to elope. Hal and Sue are in black despair. Eventually Hal finds a way out. He hires a photographer to snapshot Sue's father on the street and then, using the resulting photo as a guide, makes up to resemble papa. As papa, he fools that gentleman's coachman into driving him in the family coach to the boarding school, where Sue joins him. They journey to the parson's and are wed - and outwitted papa 'comes around' all right."
REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, April 10, 1910:
"This film undoubtedly ranks among the best yet of all films produced by this maker. The acting is good, the theme is coherent and has unity and the photography is perfect. Could anything better be expected of a subject?
"A young man is seen making love to a vivacious girl by her father. He orders the young man away and sends the girl to a boarding school. But the young man, after many unsuccessful attempts to see the girl, resolves on a plan to carry off and marry her. He disguises himself to resemble the father and the plan works to perfection. When the father does catch his daughter she already is the wife of the man she loves."
REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, April 23, 1910:
"A story of love in a boarding school, a foiled elopement and a resourceful young man, who makes up like the girl's father, fools the coachman so he is driven to the school in the family coach, marries the girl and is forgiven afterwards by the father, when he discovers how resourceful and brilliant his new son-in-law is. Acting and photography alike are well done. The film is likely to be popular wherever it is shown."
REVIEW, The New York Dramatic Mirror, April 16, 1910:
"There is some novelty of idea in this comedy that makes it another pleasing release. The acting is fairly good, but still shows room for improvement in the matter of expression. 'Daddy' doesn't want his daughter to marry a certain young man of whom she is very fond. He puts her in a boarding school, from which the girl tries to elope with her lover, but fails. Then the lover makes up to resemble 'Daddy,' presents himself at the school and claims the girl. The two are at the preacher's house - a preacher with a most remarkable pair of stage whiskers - when 'Daddy' arrives. He is so astonished at the sight of his double that he relents and accepts the marriage with good nature. The film has a number of connecting scenes which are not needed to make the story clear, but as many other producers err in the other direction, this is not a fault to be seriously condemned."
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