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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 874

A Night Out

191533 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 27:02
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

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Synopsis

Two intoxicated companions carry their quarrels from public entertainment into a hotel, where attempts to reach their rooms create further disturbances. An encounter with a woman and her dog becomes compromising when her husband returns. Corridors, beds and an ill-timed search for refuge turn the end of the evening into another series of escapes.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

Ben Turpin

Bud Jamison

Edna Purviance

Leo White

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

This was Chaplin's first film with Edna Purviance and his first Essanay production after moving from Chicago to Niles, California. Their collaboration would continue through many of his subsequent films.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

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Charles Chaplin — Strauss-Peyton Studio, 1921; published in Photoplay no. 3 (1922); National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Ben Turpin — Anonymous Unknown author; http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/4337/bturpin.html · Public domain
Bud Jamison — Hal Roach; Youtube · Public domain
Edna Purviance — Unknown photographer, 1923; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Libraries, SAYRE 8372 / Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain in the United States (PD-US-expired)
Leo White — Witzel; Photoplay Magazine March, 1917; pg. 24 https://archive.org/stream/photoplayvolume11112chic#page/378/mode/2up · Public domain

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