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About A Night Out

Charlie and Ben pay a visit to a pub, then decide to visit a swanky restaurant. Now intoxicated, they come into conflict with a French dandy and his ladyfriend. The large head waiter violently ejects Ben, and later ejects Charlie also. The pair pay another visit to a pub, then make their way to their hotel. They become interested in a pretty young woman staying in the room across the hall, but when Charlie spies on her through the keyhole a bellboy makes him stop. Charlie is taken aback to realize that the young woman's husband is the head waiter from the restaurant. He promptly checks out and moves to another hotel. Meanwhile, the head waiter and his wife, dissatisfied with the service, also decide to move to another hotel-- and, unfortunately, choose the same one Charlie has chosen, and once more wind up in the room across the hall from him. When the young woman's dog runs into Charlie's room she follows in her pajamas. Her husband returns to find his wife with Charlie in an apparently compromising position.

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• Baxter Martin on 21 April at 21:27

  “A Night Out” (1915, USA, Chaplin)
  
  Chaplin may have been the highest paid movie actor but these dozens of early works are only a collection of bits and pieces that would mature into full bloom in later feature length films. “A Night Out” has some of these brilliant flashes Chaplin shines along the way. This is another short where Chaplin is a drunk wavering between innocent boob and drunk jerk. Chaplin’s character is growing more aware of playing to the camera in addition to off the other actors. He leans on the water line of a fountain (only to fall through) and falls backwards down the aisle of some public transpo, as if falling into the middle of the screen.
  Chaplin spends half his time against a rich, snobby but civilized guy and a bouncer type oaf. These are also the halves of the film and the second half definitely sags after the first. Chaplin tipping his hat from the back while his ‘enemy’ tips his from the front, lap-purse snatching, spontaneous pie-ing and more!
  

  
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