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Two A.M.; or, the Husband's Return

18961 minUnited Kingdom
Comedy

Synopsis

A drunken husband comes home late and faces his irritated wife. She tries to reprimand him while getting him undressed and into bed, turning a domestic dispute into a physical performance.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:16
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Robert W. Paul · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsRobert W. Paul

Historical context

Produced by Robert W. Paul, the short retains the directness of a staged comic scene. Gesture and bodily resistance carry the encounter without dialogue.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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