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Lee Eisenberg Like many of Charlie Chaplin's early movies, "One A.M." emphasizes the physical humor. The man known as the Tramp plays a drunk who arrives home in the wee hours only to experience all manner of trouble getting inside and then getting in bed. This movie has a slightly more complex plot than Chaplin's very early movies, but he was still a few years away from using his movies to focus on social issues. In the meantime, you're sure to enjoy his gags as he attempts to climb the stairs and then open his Murphy bed.PS: Cinematographer Roland Totheroh got played by David Duchovny in Richard Attenborough's "Chaplin".

The_Movie_Cat In 1916 the Mutual Films company released eight Chaplin pictures, highlighting a marked decrease in his output but also a marked increase in the quality. This was a theme that was to continue throughout the rest of his career, as the following year he would release half as many again, though with increased results. Come the mid 20s and Chaplin's down to just one feature every three to five years, though most of them classics.As for the Mutual output in 1916, then despite the increased artistry, many of them are still a couple of steps away from "Chaplin as genius". Indeed, while well staged, shorts like "The Floorwalker" and "The Fireman" are really just an extended series of people being kicked repeatedly up the backside. One A.M breaks that mould, an upturn in quality that would continue into the equally brilliant "The Pawnbroker" and "The Rink" two more shorts that would showcase Chaplin as a tremendously gifted acrobat. "Behind The Screen" was another upturn in quality from this run, a film that combined a witty deconstruction of the slapstick genre along with a daring gay gag, quite shocking for 1916. But it was the stunts that were most notable for the year - if not quite death-defying, then certainly serious injury defying.One A.M. is another foray into Chaplin doing a non-Tramp character, this time a drunken aristocrat. While Charlie's immense physical gifts can be seen in most of the films of the age, many of them are of a type, in particular him falling backwards onto his shoulder blades. By marked contrast, then many of the stunts seen in One A.M. are truly extraordinary, combining both substantial physical danger along with witty innovation. A virtual solo piece, it's basically one joke extended for twenty minutes, yet it's a very good joke given enormous invention and considerable charm. A stand out of the year that culminated in the classic "The Rink".

Michael DeZubiria Chaplin playing drunk characters are his weakest roles, and for much of the time I was watching One A.M. I got the feeling that he went in to work and didn't have any ideas, so just decided to play a drunk guy coming home from a big night on the town. The plot is virtually nonexistent, it really does start with him coming home drunk, and his only purpose from beginning to end is to get upstairs and go to bed. He stumbles out of a taxi and, after accidentally paying the driver with a cigarette butt instead of the fifty cent fare, he climbs through a window to get into his house, stepping in the fishbowl on the way in. There is a series of mildly amusing sight gags involving things like an extremely slippery throw rug, a spinning table (which was one of the more amusing gags, despite making no sense at all), a stuffed cougar (or some other scary animal of the cat family), a coat rack, and a staircase with some insufficiently attached carpeting. The set that the movie is filmed on is a little strange, with two staircases on either side, both leading up to the second floor, which apparently contains just one door to the bedroom and a clock with a wildly over-sized pendulum. I'm struck by how unrealistic the set is, with those two staircases (it seems like something Sarah Winchester would build in her house), but then again, that clock's pendulum swings long and fast, directly across the path of the door to the bedroom, so it's clear that the set was designed with physical comedy in mind, not architectural efficiency. Chaplin does, after all, ultimately decide to climb that coat rack, twice, rather than use either of the staircases.The best part of the movie, however, is definitely the bed, which Charlie has to deal with when he eventually does make it upstairs. The mechanics of the bed make no sense at all, as it flips around every which way and seems to have a personality of it's own. And apparently it doesn't like being slept on! There is an interesting contraption at the end that I found a little curious. There's a thing that looks like a ladder in the bathroom, but it turns out that it's a shower that sprays water out of all of the rungs. I wonder if this was kind of a new and innovative showering idea that just never really caught on. At any rate, after losing his battle with the bed, Charlie ultimately falls asleep in the bathtub and the movie ends. It's a clever little comedy, but it's basically just physical comedy and nothing else. Even back in 1916 Chaplin was making much better films than this.

Snow Leopard One of Charlie Chaplin's many short comedies, "One A.M." is essentially a one-man show, and while it is purely slapstick-oriented without any of the depth of Chaplin's later films, it's pretty good. Except for a brief appearance by a cab driver at the beginning, Charlie is on-screen alone for the entire film, as a man returning home after a night of carousing. All he wants to do is go to bed, but before he can go to bed, he has to get up the stairs, and before he can get up the stairs, he has to get inside the house - but in Charlie's condition, each step is fraught with peril.The film starts somewhat slowly, but gets funnier as it goes along. Chaplin shows off not just his comic timing, but his acrobatic skills as well - some of the stunts are pretty impressive. While this is certainly not one of his best, it's worth watching.