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He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1924 · 72 mins
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- Directed by
- Victor Sjöström
- Starring
- Tully Marshall, John Gilbert, Bela Lugosi, Edward Arnold, Ruth King, Lon Chaney
When a brilliant inventor’s discoveries are stolen by a baron who also elopes with his wife and publicly humiliates him, the disgraced man seeks refuge in a Paris circus, performing as a clown whose routine is to receive endless slaps. He falls for a fellow performer, a showgirl whose father plans to bind her to the same baron.
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