The read
It runs a compact 12m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.2/10
51 audience votes
Key crew
- Charlie ChaplinDirector
- Charlie ChaplinWriter
Cast
- Charlie ChaplinArtist
- Cecile ArnoldMadeleine
- Jess DandyLover who stole Madeleine
- Vivian EdwardsModel
- Chester ConklinDrinker
- Harry McCoyDrinker
- Hank MannDrinker
- Wallace MacDonaldDrinker
- Fritz SchadeDrinker
- Edward NolanBartender (as Eddie Nolan)
- Charles BennettSailor
- Minta DurfeeBit (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
black and whitesilent film