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He Who Gets Slapped

Release Date:December 22, 1924

Running Time:72 min

Genres:Drama, Thriller, Romance

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Cast

Lon Chaney Norma Shearer John Gilbert Ruth King Marc McDermott Ford Sterling Tully Marshall Edward Arnold Paulette Duval Brandon Hurst Toby Wing Pierre Watkin

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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.

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