~Plot Synopsis~
In his second Essanay comedy Charlie Chaplin is teamed with cross-eyed comic Ben Turpin as two
drunks on a spree. It is noteworthy as his first film with Edna Purviance, who was to be his love
interest in films for the next eight years, and in real life for the next three. It combines elements from
at least three Keystones, Mabel's Strange Predicament, The Rounders and Caught in the Rain, but
uses a number of comic transpositions of the type that were to become Chaplin's hallmark. Charlie
and Ben carouse to a saloon and a restaurant, incurring the wrath of a French boulevardier and a
restaurant manager. Ejected from the restaurant, they return to their hotel room where they meet
Edna, whose room is across the hall. Charlie flirts with Edna until her husband, the restaurant
manager, returns and chases him away. Charlie and Ben then have a fight, and Charlie packs and
leaves the hotel, checking into another one nearby. Edna and hubby decide they don't like the hotel
either and move into Charlie's. Charlie undresses for bed in his room while Edna, across the hall,
plays fetch with her dog. When she throws her slipper into the hallway, the dog takes it into Charlie's
room and under his bed. Chasing the dog, Edna hides under Charlie's bed when he re-enters the
room from the bathroom. He escorts her back to her room but is caught there by the irate husband.
When hubby draws a pistol, Charlie escapes through the window but makes his way back into the
hotel. He encounters Ben who has come looking for Charlie's share of the rent on their former room,
and a fight ensues in which Charlie ends up floundering in the bathtub.

Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
Directed & Written by: Charles Chaplin
~Cast~

Charles Chaplin ...  Reveller
Ben Turpin ...  Fellow Reveller
Bud Jamison ...  Headwaiter
Edna Purviance ...  The Headwaiter's Wife
Leo White ...  'French' Dandy / Desk clerk
Fred Goodwins ...  Desk clerk at second hotel
Charles Allen Dealey ...  Restaurant Manager (uncredited)
Frank Dolan ...  Waiter (uncredited)
W. Coleman Elam ...  Bit Role (uncredited)
Earl Esola ...  Bellboy with Cigar Boxes (uncredited)
Eddie Fries ...  Bit Role (uncredited)
Madrona Hicks ...  Veiled Woman (uncredited)
Daniel P. Kelleher ...  Bellboy Carrying Suitcases (uncredited)
Eva Sawyer ...  The Count's Companion (uncredited)
Lee Willard ...  Soup Slurper (uncredited)
Fred Windemere ...  Cop (uncredited)
~Remaining Credits~

Produced by: The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

Distributed by: General Film Company

Produced by: Jess Robbins
Cinematography by: Harry Ensign
Film Editing by:
Charles Chaplin
Assistant Director: Ernest Van Pelt

Released: February 15, 1915
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~A Night Out~
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