Pay Day

Pay Day (1922) is a Charlie Chaplin short comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Chaplin plays a perpetually late construction laborer who catches bricks midair, flirts with the foreman's daughter, and dodges any actual work all day long.

Then payday arrives, and the real trouble starts. His formidable wife (Phyllis Allen) confiscates most of the wages, the rest vanishes on a late-night spree, and the poor man has to sneak back home before dawn without waking her. Chaplin wrote and directed it himself, wringing a full comedy out of one ordinary working week with no dialogue at all — late silent-era Chaplin at his sharpest, just before he moved to features. Twenty-one minutes that still land. Stream Pay Day (1922) online on iFILM.