The Face on the Barroom Floor
01/01/1923
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.
Movie Information
Henry B. Walthall
as Robert Stevens
Ruth Clifford
as Marion Trevor
Ralph Emerson
as Dick Van Vleck
Frederick Sullivan
as Thomas Waring
Alma Bennett
as Lottie
Norval MacGregor
as Governor
Michael Dark
as Henry Drew
Gus Saville
as Fisherman
