Comedy

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.

Credits

Charlie ChaplinArtist

Cecile ArnoldMadeleine

Jess DandyLover who stole Madeleine

Vivian EdwardsModel

Chester ConklinDrinker