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Romeo and Juliet in Our Town
Also known as [Romeo and Juliet in Town]
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Margarita Fischer (Margarita Fisher) [Juliet Smith]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, and/or The General Film Company, Incorporated? / Produced by William N. Selig. / Released 13 June 1910. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 11 June 1910, page ?] Romeo Brown and Juliet Smith appreciate the old adage, “True love never runs smooth.” Owing to the unfriendly relations of the houses of Brown and Smith their meetings are clandestine and only spasmodic. They are wending their way down the Zigzag Avenue of Shantytown, Wyoming, cooing and nestling words of love, not even to be disturbed by a village dog fight, or warring factions of Brown and Smith until taken respectively over the parental knee. They are for a time separated, but like the proverbial cat — “they come back.” The barn dance – Romeo thrown out – contrives to kidnap the fair Juliet by descending from the hay loft by a rope and carrying her off to his enchanted castle – consternation prevails – but they beat the army of the factions to the Justice of the Peace who said – as Shakespeare wrote, “Get home, golding yet and into yer beds, I’ve married these young ’uns yeh mutton heads.”
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 25 June 1910, page ?] A travesty upon the oft repeated syllogism that true love must necessarily proceed over a bumpy road. The warring factions of Brown and Smith interfere, and a lambasting over the parental knees is temporarily a deterrent. Yet, even as love has been known to utter loud guffaws at locksmiths, even so it overcomes stern parental objection by precipitately beating it to the justice where the twain are made one, and the discordant Brown-Smith elements are indissolubly united.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 October 2023.
References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 66, 316, 389 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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