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.
Charlie Chaplin
Director, Writer

Charlie Chaplin
Artist

Cecile Arnold
Madeleine

Jess Dandy
Lover who stole Madeleine

Vivian Edwards
Model

Chester Conklin
Drinker

Harry McCoy
Drinker

Hank Mann
Drinker

Wallace MacDonald
Drinker

Fritz Schade
Drinker
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