Two A.M.; or, the Husband's Return (1896)

Original title

Two AM; or, The Husband's Return

Directed by

Robert W. Paul

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drunk husband comes home very late. His wife is annoyed and tries to get him to bed.

slapstickplayfulirreverentlightheartedwhimsicalbriskstageycheeky

What happens

Two A.M.; or, the Husband's Return is an 1896 British short silent comedy film, produced by Robert W. Paul, featuring a drunken husband returning home late at night to the irritation of his wife. The film which, "was almost certainly sourced from a concurrent stage production," is according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "a study in often quite risqué body language, with the husband the worse for drink, and the wife determined both to remonstrate with him and to get him undressed and into bed as quickly as possible." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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