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.
as Artist
as Madeleine
as Lover who stole Madeleine
as Model
as Drinker
as Drinker
as Drinker
as Drinker
as Drinker
as Bartender (as Eddie Nolan)
as Sailor
as Bit (uncredited)
as Drinker (uncredited)
as Drinker (uncredited)
as Drinker (uncredited)