The Face on the Barroom Floor

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

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

N/A

Edward Nolan

Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)

N/A

Charles Bennett

Sailor

Minta Durfee

Bit (uncredited)