Description
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.
Classification
CategoryClassic Movies & Vintage Films to Stream(videos)
SubcategoryClassic Movies: Silent, Noir, Horror & Comedy Films(movies)
Genresfiction films(fiction-films-spg-c211) Psychological Films(psychological-films-spg-c211) Thriller Movies(thriller-movies-spg-c211)
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Cast
- Lon Chaney Paul Beaumont, aka HE
- Norma Shearer Consuelo
- John Gilbert Bezano
- Tully Marshall Count Mancini
- Marc McDermott Baron Regnard
- Ford Sterling Tricaud
- Ruth King Marie Beaumont
- Edward Arnold (uncredited)
- Paulette Duval Zinida (uncredited)
- Brandon Hurst Clown (uncredited)
- Toby Wing Playing Child (uncredited)
- Pierre Watkin Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
- Bela Lugosi Extra (uncredited)
- Clyde Cook Clown (uncredited)
Director
- Victor Sjöström
Screenwriter
- Leonid Andreyev
- Carey Wilson
- Victor Sjöström
Director of Photography
- Milton Moore
Producer
- Victor Sjöström
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer