The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914 film)
| The Face on the Bar Room Floor | |
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| Directed by | Charlie Chaplin |
| Based on | The Face on the Barroom Floor by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy |
| Produced by | Mack Sennett |
| Starring | Charlie 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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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 Charlie Chaplin in 1914.[1] Chaplin stars in this film, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy.
Plot
[edit]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."
Cast
[edit]- Charlie 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
Reception
[edit]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."[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Walker, Brent E. (2010). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland Inc. p. 299. ISBN 9780786457076. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
- ^ "Comments on the Films", The Moving Picture World, August 29, 1914, p. 1241-1242
External links
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- The Face on the Bar Room Floor at IMDb
- The Face on the Bar Room Floor is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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