Ambrose's Sour Grapes

1915 Directed by Walter Wright

About Ambrose's Sour Grapes

In a park, Ambrose loses his girlfriend to Harry Gribbon. Her twin sister arrives with a husband. Nobody can tell the two women apart, and the mix-up runs through the rest of the reel.

Cast & crew

More about Ambrose's Sour Grapes

Walter Wright directed it for Mack Sennett at Keystone. Mack Swain plays Ambrose. Harry Gribbon is the man who takes the girl. Mae Busch, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Phyllis Allen, Edward F. Cline, and Billy Gilbert are billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The joke is the twin, not a second courtship.
  • Swain's Keystone character is Ambrose.
  • Sennett produced it. Wright directed.
  • Cline is billed in the cast, not as director.

Scenes

  • Gribbon walks off with Ambrose's girl.
  • The twin and her husband arrive and the park cannot sort the two women.