The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)

The Face on the Barroom Floor

1914

Comedy

Synopsis

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.

Credits

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Cast

Cecile Arnold as Madeleine

Charlie Chaplin as Artist

Chester Conklin as Drinker

Edward Nolan as Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)

Fritz Schade as Drinker

Hank Mann as Drinker

Harry McCoy as Drinker

Jess Dandy as Lover who stole Madeleine