One A.M. is one of my all-time favorite Charlie Chaplin films, a 1916 short that doesn’t feature his well-known Little Tramp persona, but instead a well-dressed man-about-town who comes home after a night of heavy drinking and spends the whole short trying his hardest just to get upstairs to bed. It played before Modern Times at the Cinefamily last night, reminding me again how awesome it is. Obviously Modern Times is a top-tier film, too, but I couldn’t very well embed that whole thing. However, Criterion is releasing it on Blu-ray in just a few weeks, so there’s an incentive to catch up with it if you haven’t seen it.

So enjoy One A.M.. It’s in two parts because of YouTube’s length limitations, and I’ve put the second half under the seats.