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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.

The Face on the Bar Room Floor
film scene
Directed byCharles Chaplin
Based onThe Face on the Barroom Floor
by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
Produced byMack Sennett
StarringCharles Chaplin
Cecile Arnold
Fritz Schade
Vivian Edwards
Chester Conklin
Harry McCoy
Hank Mann
Wallace MacDonald
CinematographyFrank D. Williams
Production
company
Keystone Studios
Distributed byMutual Film
Release date
  • August 10, 1914 (1914-08-10)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English (Original intertitles)
The Face on the Bar Room Floor

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



See also



References


  1. "Comments on the Films", The Moving Picture World, August 29, 1914, p. 1241-1242




На других языках


- [en] The Face on the Bar Room Floor (1914 film)

[it] Charlot pittore

Charlot pittore (The Face on the Bar Room Floor), è un film del 1914 scritto, diretto, montato e interpretato da Charlie Chaplin. Prodotto dalla Keystone Pictures Studio, il cortometraggio (che adatta la poesia The Face upon the Barroom Floor di Hugh Antoine d'Arcy) fu completato il 20 luglio 1914 e distribuito negli Stati Uniti dalla Mutual Film il 10 agosto,[1] mentre in Italia uscì il 19 ottobre 1957.[2]

[ru] Лицо на полу бара

«Лицо на полу бара» (англ. The Face on the Bar Room Floor, альтернативные названия — The Ham Actor / The Ham Artist) — короткометражный немой фильм Чарльза Чаплина, основанный на одноименной поэме Хью Антуана д’Арси. Премьера состоялась 10 августа 1914 года.



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