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Directed by | Charles Chaplin |
Produced by | Mack Sennett |
Written by | Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (poem) |
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Charles Chaplin Cecile Arnold Fritz Schade Vivian Edwards Chester Conklin Harry McCoy Hank Mann Wallace MacDonald |
Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
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Distributed by | Mutual Film |
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14 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent film English (Original intertitles) |
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.
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.