The Face on the Barroom Floor

As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.

• G. Marion BurtonWriter
• John FordDirector
• Eugene B. LewisWriter

• Henry B. WalthallRobert Stevens
• Ruth CliffordMarion Trevor
• Ralph EmersonDick Van Vleck
• Frederick SullivanThomas Waring
• Alma BennettLottie
• Norval MacGregorGovernor
• Michael DarkHenry Drew
• Gus SavilleFisherman