He Who Gets Slapped

Drama, Thriller, Romance

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Victor Sjöström

Status Released

Release Date 1924-12-22

Storyline

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.