A Night Out packs Charlie Chaplin's brand of drunken chaos into a single, escalating evening, starting at a pub and ending in a hotel bedroom he has no business being in.
What is A Night Out about?
After leaving a pub visibly worse for wear, Charlie and his friend Ben stumble into a posh restaurant and turn a quiet evening into a running commotion, tangling with waiters, tables and other diners as their state gets harder to hide. The night doesn't calm down from there: Charlie later ends up at a hotel, where a mix-up lands him in an awkward, compromising spot with the head waiter's wife, a situation he has to try to wriggle out of before it blows up in his face. The short leans entirely on that spiral, one bad decision leading straight into the next, with Charlie's physical comedy carrying scene after scene of near-misses and social disaster.
About the cast
Charlie Chaplin stars as the perpetually unsteady lead, with Ben Turpin as his partner in trouble for much of the night. Edna Purviance appears as the woman drawn into the hotel mix-up, while Bud Jamison, Leo White and Fred Goodwins fill out the restaurant and hotel staff whose evenings Charlie and Ben upend along the way.
Context & significance
Released in 1915, A Night Out belongs to the earliest stretch of Chaplin's film career, when he was turning out short comedies at a rapid pace for Essanay after leaving Keystone. Its structure is typical of the era's short-form slapstick: a simple premise, a public setting ripe for disruption, and a lead performer whose physical timing does the heavy lifting instead of an elaborate plot.
Watching A Night Out on Ktime
A Night Out is available to stream on K-Time without a Persian dub or subtitle track, so it plays here in its original silent form, which suits physical comedy that never depended on dialogue in the first place. A free K-Time account is all that's required to watch; the film's page can be browsed beforehand without logging in. K-Time's Farsi interface still makes browsing and finding older short comedies like this one simple for Persian-speaking viewers.