Quite liking Mack Swain- he's an overgrown bear of a man, but also an ordinary joe wih a put-upon kind of face. Ultimately he's a grotesque and you can't quite understand how his career ever took off, while being quite pleased it did. No-one else in this quirky short is particularly distinguished, though I guess the harsh 'mother' fulflls her job description successfully.
Ambrose is fired from some sweatshop kind of place after flirting with the boss's daughter and becoming physically entangled with his disagreeable wife- outraged he hires a couple of first-rate toughs to get his revenge and wreak some vengeance. And here we're on dodgy ground- there's something seedy about this revenge episode, especially as it's the innocent daughter who ends up suggestively tied and mannacled and then left to drown. But this is a good mix of low farce and honest to goodness Perils of Pauline stuff as Ambrose rescue the pretty girl from drowning. Very enjoyable if low on humour.
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