The Face on the Barroom Floor

The Face on the Barroom Floor

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Produced by Keystone Film Company

191412 min5.4 / 10

A darkly comedic silent film about a man's descent into drunken despair over lost love, blending slapstick humor with genuine pathos and existential uncertainty.

A painter turned tramp (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's literally falling down. 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.

Questions people ask

  • Does The Face on the Barroom Floor end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 96% of films.

  • Is The Face on the Barroom Floor sad? Yes. More sad than 88% of films.

  • Is The Face on the Barroom Floor scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is The Face on the Barroom Floor violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is The Face on the Barroom Floor easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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