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In a delightful convolution of early cinematic farce, 'Ambrose's Matrimonial Mixup' plunges the portly, perpetually flustered Ambrose, portrayed with inimitable physical grace by Mack Swain, into an escalating maelstrom of pre-nuptial pandemonium. Our hapless protagonist, on the cusp of matrimony with the demure Miss Priscilla Primrose, finds his meticulously planned wedding day hijacked by an improbable sequence of events. A crucial telegram, detailing an inheritance contingent on his imminent nuptials, becomes entangled with correspondence intended for Captain Dashing, a dashing adventurer concurrently set to marry a fiery Spanish dancer within the same grand hotel. This seemingly innocuous administrative error ignites a powder keg of mistaken identities: Ambrose is repeatedly mistaken for Dashing, and vice versa, by various myopic relatives and impassioned fiancées. The narrative crescendoes into a spectacularly choreographed, multi-room chase sequence, wherein Ambrose, a figure of escalating panic and comedic despair, navigates a labyrinth of ballrooms, kitchens, and bewildered guests. He dodges the amorous advances of the wrong bride, evades a jealous rival, and ultimately faces the wrath of his own bewildered fiancée, who interprets his frantic escape attempts as either bigamy or a complete mental collapse. The film culminates in an uproarious altar-side revelation, amidst a wreckage of overturned cakes and scattered floral arrangements, where the true identities are unfurled, Ambrose narrowly averts an unintended marital commitment, and finally, breathlessly, reclaims his rightful bride, his inheritance secured, albeit at the steep cost of his composure and dignity.
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