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Ambrose’s Icy Love
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Walter S. Fredericks
Cast: Mack Swain [Ambrose], Rae Godfrey (Ray Godfrey) [Rosabelle], Jack Perrin [Jack Frost]
L-KO Motion Picture Kompany production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Production supervision by J.G. Blystone (John G. Blystone). / © 14 December 1917 by L-KO Motion Picture Kompany [LP11843]. Released 26 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 5 January 1918, page ?] The two hundred pounds of Ambrose was his mother’s pride and joy. But his employer, Jack Frost, froze him with every look because he loved Rosabelle. Jack Frost most appropriately was in the ice business. He discovered Ambrose's secret vice — chocolates — the curse of his otherwise perfect manhood, and substituting brandied ones, he started Ambrose on a joy ride on a cake of ice. When Ambrose came to, he not only was disgraced, but the workmen were on strike. “Give us a steam-heated ice-house,” they demanded. But Ambrose, who was foreman of the cold storage plant, believed in cold comfort. He fired them, and of course they had to have revenge. Another of Ambrose’s cute little tricks was a hickory correspondence tree. Jack Frost knew this, and put a decoy letter in the old hickory, apparently from Rosabelle, asking Ambrose to meet her at three o’clock. In the meantime Frost had abducted Rosabelle and chained her to a cake of ice in his ice-house. When Ambrose discovered the perfidy he got so much speed up on the old Ford that he couldn't stop, and bored right through the ice-house.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 26 December 2022.
References: LoC-MoPic-2 p. 20 : Website-IMDb.
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