He Who Gets Slapped(1924)

movie - first aired/released 1924-12-22 - 72 min - audience 7.6

Drama, Thriller, Romance

Directed by Victor Sjöström

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.