The Face on the Barroom Floor
About The Face on the Barroom Floor
A painter who has lost the woman he courted when he had money drinks with sailors until he cannot stand. With a piece of chalk he keeps trying to draw her face on the barroom floor. He collapses. The short follows Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's poem, in which the painter dies. Chaplin plays him.
Cast & crew
More about The Face on the Barroom Floor
Chaplin wrote and directed, loosely from the poem. Mack Sennett produced. Mutual distributed it. Frank D. Williams photographed. The archive copy is dated August 10, 1914. Cecile Arnold plays the woman. Chester Conklin, Jess Dandy, and Vivian Edwards are billed.
Themes
Look
Frank D. Williams shot the bar and the chalk on the floor.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Chaplin is a failed painter here, not a tramp who wanders in from the street.
- The drawing never comes out. He tries again until he drops.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as CC_1914_08_10_FaceOnTheBarroomFloor.
- The poem spells it Bar Room. The film title is often printed the same way.
Scenes
- He draws her face on the boards and cannot make it hold.
Influenced by
- Hugh Antoine d'Arcy's poem "The Face on the Barroom Floor
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1914_08_10_FaceOnTheBarroomFloor)
