Charlie Chaplin’s forth film for the Mutual Film Company is
a unique two reeler in which he is almost the only person on screen for the
film’s entirety. Apart from an establishing scene featuring Albert Austin as a
disgruntled cab driver, Chaplin has the film to himself as he struggles to get
up to bed whilst drunk. Chaplin arrives home at 1am to find numerous inanimate
objects in his way in his quest for a nights sleep.
In this twenty-six minute short a drunken Chaplin is scared
by stuffed animals, baffled by a revolving table, constantly defeated by a
flight of stairs before being bested by a fold away bed. Chaplin takes inspiration
from the drunken character that made him famous in England
