The Face on the Bar Room Floor
film scene
Directed by	Charles Chaplin
Based on	The Face on the Barroom Floor by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
Produced by	Mack Sennett
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 date	August 10, 1914 (1914-08-10)
Running time	14 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film English (Original intertitles)

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.

Synopsis

A devastated tramp (Charlie Chaplin) visits a crowd-filled bar and recounts the story of how he fell in love with a woman and then had her taken by a friend of his. Drunk, he keeps trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk, and gets into fights with other men in the process. He eventually passes out “dead drunk” (thus deviating from the poem, where the protagonist actually falls “dead”) 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."

Reception

A reviewer for The Moving Picture World gave the film a favorable review, writing "Chas. Chaplain [sic] wins new laurels in the leading part. This is bound to please."^[1]

Cast

• Charles Chaplin - Artist/Tramp
• Cecile Arnold - Madeline
• Fritz Schade - Drinker
• Vivian Edwards - Model
• Chester Conklin - Drinker
• Harry McCoy - Drinker
• Hank Mann - Drinker
• Wallace MacDonald - Drinker
• Edward Nolan - Bartender