The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914 film)

Face on the Bar Room Floor
File:Face on the Bar Room Floor.jpg film scene
Directed by	Charles Chaplin
Produced by	Mack Sennett
Written by	Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (poem)
Starring	Charles Chaplin Cecile Arnold Fritz Schade Vivian Edwards Chester Conklin Harry McCoy Hank Mann Wallace MacDonald
Cinematography	Frank D. Williams
Production company	Keystone Studios
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release dates	August 10, 1914 (1914-08-10)
Running time	14 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English (Original intertitles)

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Face on the Bar Room Floor

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.

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.

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 at IMDb
• The Face on the Bar Room Floor on YouTube
• The Face on the Bar Room Floor is available for free download at the Internet Archive