He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

Name: He Who Gets Slapped
Director: Victor Sjöström
Released: 1924-12-22
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott

DramaThrillerRomance

72 min

Plot Summary

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.