He Who Gets Slapped

1924 · Directed by Victor Sjöström · 95 min · drama film, silent film

★ 7.6/10 · 112 ratings on TMDB

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.