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He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
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9 November 1924 (USA)
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Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose...
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(Credited cast)| Lon Chaney | ... | Paul Beaumont / HE | |
| Norma Shearer | ... | Consuelo | |
| John Gilbert | ... | Bezano | |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Count Mancini | |
| Marc McDermott | ... | Baron Regnard | |
| Ford Sterling | ... | Tricaud | |
| Harvey Clark | ... | Briquet (as Harvey Clarke) | |
| Paulette Duval | ... | Zinida | |
| Ruth King | ... | Maria Beaumont | |
| Clyde Cook | ... | A Clown | |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | A Clown | |
| George Davis | ... | A Clown |
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Sweden:95 min | USA:80 min (original release) | 71 min (TCM print)
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"He Who Gets Slapped" was originally a Russian book by Leonid Andreyev and was translated into English and adapted for the stage by Gregory Zillboorg. It opened on Jan. 9, 1922 at the Garrick Theatre in New York and ran for 182 performances. With the exception of Consuelo (Norma Shearer's character), most of the characters in the stage production did not have names. The Lon Chaney character in the play was simply "He", and the others "a Juggler," "an Acrobat", etc. MGM did not credit Gregory Zillboorg for his theatrical adaptation.
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Continuity: During part of the scene where the lion is loose in the room, Beaumont is seen with no, or hardly any, black makeup around his right eye. Before and after this scene, both eyes are made up.
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In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best.
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Referenced in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
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Before I saw "He Who Get's Slapped" my 3 favorite movies were The Empire Strikes Back, Evil Dead 2, and Star Trek II.
This movie is 180 degrees from any of those movies, in fact, it's in a whole other universe. This silent film that opened in 1924 changed my movie tastes so much that it's amazing. I was just flicken channels one night after studying for a final for 3 hours and stopped on TCM for a second because Robert Osborne said that it starred Lon Chaney. In my niavete, I thought he was talking about the guy who played The Wolf Man, but this is in fact Lon Chaney Sr. Junior is the guy who had played Wolfie.
So I started watching it and was about to change it when I found out it was a silent film. But I stayed with it for a few minutes, and soon I was enraptured. 2 hours later, I was riveted to the edge of my seat as HE's struggle came to a climax. Well, the next day, I failed the test. But I learned more watching that movie than I could ever learn in Calc 320.
Since then, I have watched TCM religiously (when I'm not studying of course) and now I realize that 99% of movies made in modern times are vastly inferior to the old classic movies.
Black and White RULES
If you haven't seen He Who Gets Slapped. Track it down and WATCH IT. It is WAY better than The Phantom Menace.