The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)

1914 · Silent film · 12 min · dir. Charlie Chaplin

• Comedy

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Synopsis

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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Details

Director

Charlie Chaplin

Writer

Charlie Chaplin

Studio

Keystone Film Company

Released

1914-08-10

Running time

12 minutes

Cast & crew

• Charlie Chaplin Director
• Charlie Chaplin
• Cecile Arnold
• Jess Dandy
• Vivian Edwards
• Chester Conklin
• Harry McCoy
• Hank Mann
• Wallace MacDonald

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