Film

He Who Gets Slapped

Release year

1924

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.

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Cast

Lon Chaney
Norma Shearer
John Gilbert
Ruth King
Marc McDermott
Ford Sterling

Poster artist

Eric Rohman