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He Who Gets Slapped

1924 · NR · 1h 12m

Directed by Victor Sjöström

7.5

TMDB audience score
114 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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)