Film · Mutual · 1916
One A.M.
16Leave it.
Chaplin is drunk and alone, and the staircase, clock, and bed do the acting.
Take controlThis scores 16. One A.M. cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
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The review
I wanted no plot and almost no people. One A.M. is Chaplin alone, a Mutual two-reeler from 1916. He is drunk. A staircase, a clock, and a bed will not cooperate. The objects are the cast. Nobody else is needed. A house can watch it. Mine did, because a feature would have been a mistake at that hour.
I laughed at the furniture. I would not tell a child that a drunk man is a model. There is no job, no marriage, no neighbor. The pleasure is one body against a room, and it ends when the reel ends. That was enough for a tired night. It is not advice for the morning.
Journal
Keep One A.M. in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 16. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
I'm No Angel
28 instead of 16
I'm No Angel is still a comedy film, and it scores 28 instead of 16. What you gain is industry: Circus work, fortunes, then a court: the job on screen is keeping the man.
The eight
- 1Industry
No job is in it; Chaplin is a drunk man alone with the furniture.
- 1Household
The room has a stair, a clock, and a bed, and no family at all.
- 1Piety
No one else is there to stop him, and the reel never asks him to stop.
- 2Courage
The hazards are a staircase, a clock, and a bed, not a loss he'd miss.
- 1Republic
He owes no neighbor and no town; the two-reeler keeps him alone.
- 2Temperance
He stays drunk so the gag works, and the reel never asks him to quit.
- 3Truth
The objects refuse to help, and that refusal is the whole joke.
- 2Stewardship
A Mutual two-reeler is what remains: a drunk man and some furniture.
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