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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 774

One A.M.

191634 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 26:38
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Charlie Chaplin · Public domain

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Synopsis

A wealthy man returns home after a night of drinking and finds that his own furniture has become an obstacle course. Getting through the door is only the beginning: rugs, stairs, a swinging clock and a folding bed turn simple movements into elaborate struggles. His attempt to reach a comfortable place to sleep becomes a nearly solitary battle with the house.

Cast

Charles Chaplin

DirectorsCharles Chaplin

Behind the scenes

Apart from a brief appearance by the taxi driver, Chaplin carries the short alone. He plays a prosperous drunk rather than the Tramp, using the carefully arranged interior as his principal comic partner.

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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)

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