Saturday, October 02, 2021

Ambrose's First Falsehood (1914)

(*mild spoilers*) Ambrose is reluctantly taken by another man (a friend? a stranger?) in a car ride with two young women. They enter a cabaret where Ambrose gets involved with a performer, incurring the rage of the place's owner (the performer's husband?). Ambrose's companion had sent a note to Ambrose's wife saying he traveled on business; when the wife reads in the paper that there was a train wreck, she thinks Ambrose died.

Mildly entertaining short. Due to its antiquity, and multiple later uses of this same plotline, one could attach a certain historical importance to it.

Rating: 40

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