The Face on the Barroom Floor

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Release date: August 10, 1914
Duration: 12 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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Cecile Arnold
Madeleine
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Jess Dandy
Lover who stole Madeleine
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Chester Conklin
Drinker