Monday September 17, 7:00 pm, The Paramount Theater
Throughout his youth performing in British Music Halls, Charles Chaplin specialized in playing the inebriate stumblebum with hilarious results. The fourth of twelve two-reel shorts produced under contract to the Mutual Film Corporation, One A.M. (1916) is the only scenario in which Chaplin, as a bewildered boozer, occupies the screen entirely alone throughout most of the film. Albert Austin appears briefly as a taxi driver in the opening seconds.
An intoxicated gentleman (Chaplin) arrives at his doorstep by taxi and engages in an exhibition of alcoholic gymnastics with his house and its contents. Unable to unlock the front door, he climbs through a window, slides across the floor on small rugs and scales a large hat rack to the second floor when negotiating the stairs proves too difficult. Charlie finds himself running atop a spinning table, then battling an uncooperative Murphy bed, only to end up sleeping in the bathtub.
Throughout his youth performing in British Music Halls, Charles Chaplin specialized in playing the inebriate stumblebum with hilarious results. The fourth of twelve two-reel shorts produced under contract to the Mutual Film Corporation, One A.M. (1916) is the only scenario in which Chaplin, as a bewildered boozer, occupies the screen entirely alone throughout most of the film. Albert Austin appears briefly as a taxi driver in the opening seconds.
An intoxicated gentleman (Chaplin) arrives at his doorstep by taxi and engages in an exhibition of alcoholic gymnastics with his house and its contents. Unable to unlock the front door, he climbs through a window, slides across the floor on small rugs and scales a large hat rack to the second floor when negotiating the stairs proves too difficult. Charlie finds himself running atop a spinning table, then battling an uncooperative Murphy bed, only to end up sleeping in the bathtub.