Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
Watch the official Ambrose's Little Hatchet 1915 trailer in HD below.
Mack Swain as Ambrose
Louise Fazenda as The Wife
Dave Morris as The Meat Market Worker
Bobby Dunn as Man on Street
David Kirkland Director
United States 15 March 1915
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16 September 1915
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24 June 1915
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08 November 1915
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22 March 1915
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19 October 1915
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25 January 1915
John Keefe, a gambler, shoots and kills Robert Barrington in an argument over a card game. Keefe steals Barrington's papers and forges a bill of sale to himself for Barrington's stable of race horses back east.
05 January 1915
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.
26 February 1915
A short comic film in which a bickering duo start a taxi company. A constantly quarrelling duo, consisting of a tall fat man and a short thin man, find a wallet on the street, with twenty dollars inside.
14 August 1915
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