He Who Gets Slapped

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.

Top Cast

Lon Chaney Paul Beaumont

Norma Shearer Consuelo

John Gilbert Bezano

Ruth King Marie Beaumont

Marc McDermott Baron Regnard