A Night Out

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A Night Out

1915

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

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Blair Russell
Review by Blair Russell ★★★½ 4

This felt like the time to view a Charlie Chaplin short; not as many have been seen in terms of silent comedy shorts as with Keaton or Lloyd. A few days ago, a video was found on YouTube where the account compiled some of the shorts that Chaplin made with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company after he left Mack Sennett due to a pay dispute.

Chaplin and Ben Turpin (i.e. the fellow who sadly had the worst case of crossed eyes you’ll ever witness) are buds who got obliterated drunk-hopefully, not of you tonight on New Year’s Eve reach this level of intoxication!-and stumble their way into a frou-frou restaurant, causing havoc with their antics. Among the ire that they…

Daniel
Review by Daniel ★★★

"You hit me, not my pal!"

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) and a friend (Ben Turpin), already tipsy, visit a restaurant and get into trouble with the staff and other guests ...

A Night Out is a comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

This comedy short, the second Chaplin did at Essanay Studios, was also the first appearance of Edna Purviance, who would go on and be his leading lady in more than 30 movies over the span of eight years.

Two-reel films like this were the standard for Chaplin at Essanay, which is good, because it allowed him to develop the story and characters. Here, the humor works well, the sets are very good, and so is the supporting cast.

In conclusion, A Night Out, which marks the beginning of the Chaplin-Purviance collaboration, is a good comedy with fun slapstick.

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thearkofkaark
Review by thearkofkaark ★★★

Not one of Chaplin’s best, but it’s of note for being the first time he shared the screen with the great Edna Purviance, who would appear alongside him in many more films. Here she’s the wife of a burly head waiter who takes a disliking to The Tramp and his fellow drunk Ben Turpin (who mainly seems to be around for Charlie to punch and kick), and mayhem and misunderstandings ensue. My favourite scene is when the still-intoxicated Charlie goes to brush his teeth.

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Krautsalat
Review by Krautsalat ★★★

Lesser Chaplin, most of this is just drunk people hitting each other.

Cinema_Snobb
Review by Cinema_Snobb ★★★

Charlie Chaplin and Ben Turpin are two buddies who have been out driving at a local pub. They have ac little to much which leads to some fighting at a local restaurant. That all son moves to a hotel what Charlie clashes with the wife of the head waiter.

Made in Oakland in 1915, it marked Chaplin's first of eight movies with Edna Purviance.

It is an amusing little film, but hardly one of Chaplin's best. It's essentially a one joke movie with lots of physical humor. It's well staged and worth a casual viewing.

Michael
Review by Michael ★★★

This is one of the early films Charlie Chaplin made at Essanay Studios during his year there after he left Keystone. It has many of the familiar elements from Keystone – men with silly facial hair, women who seem to enjoy flirting with transients, a dull-witted policeman, a large jealous husband, hotels and bar rooms, and a world populated with people with a propensity for solving problems with physical violence – but has more measured timing and use of the individual gags, plus a much longer run time than most of the shorts he did there. For example there’s a sequence in the hotel room where Charlie has drunkenly confused the phone with a water dispenser, and keeps trying to…

Rafakar Kenobi
Review by Rafakar Kenobi ★★½

Debut de Edna Purviance y primera de las muchísimas colaboraciones con Chaplin, que vuelve a contar con Ben Turpin, esta vez como compañero de borrachera.

Un guión muy disperso, incluso falto de un desenlace como tal, además de alargarse demasiado, con un perro que aparece de la nada. Aunque tiene sus momentos y el slapstick es brillante. 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Benjamin Green
Review by Benjamin Green ★★★

First time watch: April 2024
Source: Blu Ray
Length: 2 Reel
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Director/Cast/Premise
His Night Out is the 1915 short silent comedy written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin. With appearances from Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin and Leo White the plot sees revellers cause trouble at a posh restaurant.

Quick Thoughts
His Night Out is a notable title for the first appearance of Edna - In his autobiography Chaplin recalls meeting Edna when he went to San Francisco looking for a leading lady among chorus girls of the musical comedy by G. M Anderson. Chaplin declared none of them were photogenic. Thankfully Carl Strauss knew…

ANDREWGRAINGER1
Review by ANDREWGRAINGER1 ★★★½ Liked

Charlies 2nd short for Essanay sees his Tramp in a particularly feisty and flimsy way.. you see he's had a bit too much 'medicine' folks and is in a pretty inebriated state upsetting several people in a hotel. This short could actually be called; How many times can The Tramp be thrown out of a hotel and the answer is an awful lot. Some great physical comedy in this with some particularly nice cane and hat work from Chaplin. This short also saw Chaplin working with Edna Purviance for the first time. She would be Chaplins go to leading lady for the next eight years. Some funny interactions between The Tramp and various others. Good fun.

Howard Davis
Review by Howard Davis ★★★

Charlie was so lit he threw his pants out the window and somehow that's only like the 10th most insane thing he did during his night out

Chris
Review by Chris ★★½

Two films into his contract with Essanay, and Chaplin isn't yet finding his groove. The pace is clearly quite different (IE slower) than the Keystone zany slapsticks, and there are some very nice moments. However, similar to His New Job, the two reels present just too much for Chaplin to fill with the content he has, and so it drags fairly laboriously in the mid section.

The ending climax is vintage Chaplin chaos, and there's a return to ending the movie in a body of water, so I welcome that.

AlexKar
Review by AlexKar

I feel like you guys are starting to get bored of this marathon, as much as I am.