The Town Went Wild is a 1944 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Freddie Bartholomew and Edward Everett Horton.
Like Romeo and Juliet, next door neighbours David Conway and Carol Harrison are deeply in love with each other though their fathers have been feuding for a lifetime.
With David due to go to the Alaskan Territory for engineering work for the United States Government, the pair decide to elope.
David gets his best friend, Carol's brother Bob to witness their wedding at a Justice of the Peace in a neighbouring town using Millie, who has an infatuation with Bob to drive them to the town in her car and act as another witness.
Not only is Carol set to marry her brother, but the intention to do so faces a fifteen year prison sentence.