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A painter turned tramp (Charlie 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 collapses. 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.

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."

Charles Chaplin as the Artist/Tramp チャールズ・チャップリン
Cecile Arnold as Madeleine セシル・アーノルド
Fritz Schade as the Drinker フリッツ・シェイド
Vivian Edwards as the Model ヴィヴィアン・エドワーズ
Chester Conklin as the Drinker チェスター・コンクリン
Harry McCoy as the Drinker　ハリー・マッコイ
Hank Mann as the Drinker 　ハンク・マン
Wallace MacDonald as the Drinker ウォレス・マクドナルド



1914年の「チャップリンの画工」という作品です。チャップリンの22作目にあたる。
The Face on the Bar Room Floorとう詩があるそうで、それをもとにした作品らしい。

特に目をつけるようなものはないか。