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An Ambassador from the Dead (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

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An Ambassador from the Dead (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

Amos Carter, at the age of 75 years, is still the active head of the great steel works which he owns. The general manager is his grandnephew and only living relative, Amos Carter Rand. Carter comes to the conclusion that his concern is ...See moreAmos Carter, at the age of 75 years, is still the active head of the great steel works which he owns. The general manager is his grandnephew and only living relative, Amos Carter Rand. Carter comes to the conclusion that his concern is paying too much wages and orders the general manager to reduce. Rand opposes the plan, saying that wages are low enough. Carter goes home to his library. The sight of two lovers seen through the window in the park across the street recalls to Carter his own boyhood love affair of fifty years ago when he fought a duel over his sweetheart and thereby caused her a degree of mental agony which resulted in her death. A day or two later the old man takes the wages question into his own hands and orders posted a notice of a general reduction. He and his grand-nephew quarrel over this and come to bitter words. The general manager resigns. On reaching his library he decides to disinherit the boy and leave his estate, including the business, to charity. He takes from his safe the will in young Rand's favor and begins to write a new will leaving everything to charity. While he is writing a mysterious stranger in funereal garb comes to the front door and rings the bell. A servant opens the door and sees no one, although the stranger enters and goes to the library. There he speaks to old Carter and shows him the identical locket Carter gave his sweetheart fifty years before. He asks Carter what he would give to spend an hour in the girl's company and Carter says he would give all he owns. The stranger tells him he shall see her but only for an hour. He then vanishes, leaving Carter a youth in the dress of half a century ago. Walking out through the French doors of his library Carter finds himself in the old surroundings and the girl is waiting for him. When the hour is nearly gone she invites him to walk with her along the lovers' path. Remembering his promise to the stranger to return in an hour, he hesitates, but he breaks his promise and goes with the girl. Rand, after a conference with the workmen at the plant decides that his resignation was hasty and the situation is not so bad as he thought. He decides to see his grand-uncle and have another talk with him. He reaches the house and the servant goes to announce him. Seated at the library desk, with the new will in front of him, lacking only the signature, the servant finds the old man dead. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Lee Shumway Actor (as L.C. Shumway) Actor (as L.C. Shumway) See fewer	Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Melvin Mayo Actor Actor See fewer	The Death Warrant (1914)
Velma Whitman Actress Actress See fewer	Some Boy (1917)
George Routh Actor Actor See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)