He Who Gets Slapped

1h 12m
DramaThrillerRomance
7.6

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.

Cast

Lon Chaney
Paul Beaumont
Norma Shearer
Consuelo
John Gilbert
Bezano
Ruth King
Marie Beaumont
Marc McDermott
Baron Regnard
Ford Sterling
Tricaud
Tully Marshall
Count Mancini
Edward Arnold
(uncredited)
Paulette Duval
Zinida (uncredited)
Brandon Hurst
Clown (uncredited)
Toby Wing
Playing Child (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
Bela Lugosi
Extra (uncredited)
Clyde Cook
Clown (uncredited)

Crew

Victor Sjöström
Director, Adaptation, Producer
Carey Wilson
Adaptation
Hugh Wynn
Editor
Milton Moore
Director of Photography
Sophie Wachner
Costume Design
Gregory Zillboorg
Translator
Louis B. Mayer
Presenter
Marian Ainslee
Title Graphics
Leonid Andreyev
Theatre Play
Cedric Gibbons
Settings

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