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 | Artist |
Cecile Arnold | Madeleine |
Fritz Schade | Drinker |
Jess Dandy | Lover who stole Madeleine |
Vivian Edwards | Model |
Chester Conklin | Drinker |
Harry McCoy | Drinker |
Hank Mann | Drinker |
Wallace MacDonald | Drinker |
Edward Nolan | Bartender (as Eddie Nolan) |
Charles Bennett | Sailor |
Minta Durfee | Bit (uncredited) |