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.
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THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR (1914) Based on the poem of the same title by Hugh Antoine d'ArcyStarring: Charlie Chaplin, Vivian Edwards, Cecile Arnold, Jess Dandy, Edward Nolan, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Harry McCoy, Fritz Schade Directed by ChaplinKeystone Film Company William Thomas Sherman, wts@gunjones.com, http://www.mn-hp.com
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- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Starring
- Charlie Chaplin, Cecile Arnold, Jess Dandy, Vivian Edwards, Chester Conklin, Harry McCoy, Hank Mann, Wallace MacDonald
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