The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)

The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)

1914-08-10 United States of America 12 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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

Cecile Arnold is Madeleine
Madeleine
Jess Dandy is Lover who stole Madeleine
Lover who stole Madeleine
Harry McCoy is Drinker
Hank Mann is Drinker
Drinker
Fritz Schade is Drinker
Edward Nolan is Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)
Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)
Minta Durfee is Bit (uncredited)
Bit (uncredited)