The Face on the Bar Room Floor is a short film written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914. Chaplin stars in this film, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy.
Video The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914 film)
Synopsis
A painter turned tramp (Charlie 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 collapses. 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.
According to Chaplin expert Gerald D. McDonald, "The subtitles of the film were lines from the poem, but the original verses were altered to match the Keystone credo that life is a funny game at best."
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Review
A reviewer for Moving Picture World wrote, "Chas. Chaplain [sic] wins new laurels in the leading part."
Cast
- Charles Chaplin - Artist/Tramp
- Cecile Arnold - Madeleine
- Fritz Schade - Drinker
- Vivian Edwards - Model
- Chester Conklin - Drinker
- Harry McCoy - Drinker
- Hank Mann - Drinker
- Wallace MacDonald - Drinker
See also
- The Face on the Barroom Floor (poem)
- List of American films of 1914
- Charlie Chaplin filmography
External links
- The Face on the Bar Room Floor on IMDb
- The Face on the Bar Room Floor is available for free download at the Internet Archive
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