One A.M.
About One A.M.
A drunk comes home from a taxi after one in the morning and wants his bed. A revolving table, a tiger-skin rug, a pendulum clock, and the stairs each stop him. He gets to the room on all fours. The Murphy bed will not stay down. Soaked, he climbs into the bathtub and goes to sleep under a towel.
Cast & crew
More about One A.M.
Charlie Chaplin directed, edited, and plays the drunk. Vincent Bryan and Maverick Terrell share the scenario credit. Henry P. Caulfield produced it. William C. Foster and Roland Totheroh photographed it. Mutual released it on 7 August 1916, in two reels. Albert Austin appears only as the taxi driver.
Themes
Making
Chaplin built a two-reeler with one actor and the furniture. Austin's taxi is the only other face.
Look
William C. Foster and Roland Totheroh photographed the room, the stairs, and the bed.
Preservation
A print survives. One circulating copy runs 26 minutes 39 seconds.
Notes
- It is the first film Chaplin starred in alone.
- He does not play the Tramp.
- Edna Purviance is not in the cast. His New Job is the other Chaplin film of 1915 to 1923 without her.
- The taxi driver, Albert Austin, never comes into the house.
Scenes
- He fights the revolving table and the tiger rug.
- The pendulum knocks him on the stairs.
- He gives up on the Murphy bed and sleeps in the tub.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1916_08_07_One_A_M)
- Wikimedia Commons (One A.M. (1916) by Charlie Chaplin.webm)
