The Face on the Barroom Floor

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.

5.32

12 min

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

as Artist

Cecile Arnold

as Madeleine

Jess Dandy

as Lover who stole Madeleine

Vivian Edwards

as Model

Chester Conklin

as Drinker

Harry McCoy

as Drinker

Hank Mann

as Drinker

Wallace MacDonald

as Drinker

Fritz Schade

as Drinker

Edward Nolan

as Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)

Charles Bennett

as Sailor

Minta Durfee

as Bit (uncredited)

Edwin Frazee

as Drinker (uncredited)

Frank Opperman

as Drinker (uncredited)

Josef Swickard

as Drinker (uncredited)

Director

Charlie Chaplin