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Director:
Victor Sjöström
Writers:
Leonid Andreyev (play)
Victor Sjöström (adaptation)
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Release Date:
9 November 1924 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
Sweden:95 min | USA:80 min (original release) | 71 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White | Color (tinted)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Company:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) more

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Trivia:
"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. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Opening Dialogue Card: In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) more

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16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
My all time favorite!, 27 September 1999
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Author: AaronPK from La Crosse, Wisconsin

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.

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