THE FACE ON THE BAR ROOM FLOOR
T. it.:; Sog.: dall’omonima poesia di Hugh Antoine d’Arcy; Scen.: Charles Chaplin; F.: Frank D. Williams; Int.: Charles Chaplin (artista), Cecile Arnold (Madeline), Jess Dandy (l’amante), Fritz Shade, Chester Conklin, Josef Swickard (clienti), Charles Bennett (marinaio); Prod.: Keystone 35mm. L.o.: 311 m. Bn.
Film Notes
An unusual Chaplin film, (…) the theme is precisely the same as that of Maurice Chevalier’s famous song “Valentine” – a young man who is in love with “the world’s most beautiful woman”, but who is abandoned by her. Later he meets up with her; but now she has a husband and a child. Seeing how gross her figure has become and how her beauty has faded, he thanks his lucky stars he has escaped so cruel a fate.
Uno Asplund, Chaplin’s Films (A.S. Barnes, 1976)