December 22, 1924
72 minutes
DramaThrillerRomance
He Who Gets Slapped
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))
