The Face on the Barroom Floor

Overview

As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.

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Cast

Henry B. Walthall

Robert Stevens

Ruth Clifford

Marion Trevor

Ralph Emerson

Dick Van Vleck

Frederick Sullivan

Thomas Waring

Alma Bennett

Lottie

Norval MacGregor

Governor

Michael Dark

Henry Drew

Gus Saville

Fisherman