Ambrose's Fury

This film contains some of the best eye work I have ever seen by a Keystone Kop.

In addition, all bathing suits are triumphant.

The washing of a bather's clothes away while they are distracted remains timeless, as does the inevitable cross-dressing mayhem that ensues.

Hiding under beds to avoid awkward social moments never fails to elicit a chuckle and there are too few scenes in which an armed man is spanked on the bottom by his indignant spouse nowadays.

I am amused.

Mack Swain appears in this breezy low comedy number in his familiar character of Ambrose. He and a neighbor's wife disport themselves on the beach. All goes well till the husband and his own wife show up. This is a characteristic number, not very delicate in its humor but will bring many laughs. - The Moving Picture World, April 10, 1915

This silent short stars Mack Swain and is fairly typical of the type films they were doing at the time. Using the tried and true plot of philandering spouses, this one has to do with married Mack making eyes at his neighbor. They both agree to meet at the beach, so when Mack takes his wife, he quickly ditches her. At the same time he's running around with this fair lady, the lady's husband is at Swain's home romancing the housekeeper. The only one in this flick that ISN'T a philanderer is Swain's poor wife.

Sadly, though this film is better made than most Keystone films of the day, it also lacks any real laughs. The closest it comes to that is later in the film when a cop starts bonking a guy on the head and the husband starts shooting at Mack--all very, very typical Keystone gags.