The Face on the Barroom Floor

12m
Comedy
5.3

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.

Cast

Charlie Chaplin
Artist
Cecile Arnold
Madeleine
Jess Dandy
Lover who stole Madeleine
Vivian Edwards
Model
Chester Conklin
Drinker
Harry McCoy
Drinker
Hank Mann
Drinker
Wallace MacDonald
Drinker
Fritz Schade
Drinker
Edward Nolan
Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)
Charles Bennett
Sailor
Minta Durfee
Bit (uncredited)
Edwin Frazee
Drinker (uncredited)
Frank Opperman
Drinker (uncredited)
Josef Swickard
Drinker (uncredited)

Crew

Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
Poem
Charlie Chaplin
Director, Writer, Editor
Frank D. Williams
Cinematography
Mack Sennett
Producer

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