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22 December 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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Alexander Payne, Silent Film Aficionado
(From Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy. 29 January 2012, 10:00 PM, PST)
Top Ten Silent Films Anyone Who Liked 'The Artist' Should See
(From Rope Of Silicon. 25 January 2012, 10:16 AM, PST)
The history of MGM: the silent era
(From Den of Geek. 10 January 2012, 3:25 AM, PST)
(From Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy. 29 January 2012, 10:00 PM, PST)
Top Ten Silent Films Anyone Who Liked 'The Artist' Should See
(From Rope Of Silicon. 25 January 2012, 10:16 AM, PST)
The history of MGM: the silent era
(From Den of Geek. 10 January 2012, 3:25 AM, PST)
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Another Master Class From Mr. Lon Chaney
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Cast
(in credits order) | Lon Chaney | ... | Paul Beaumont / HE |
 | Norma Shearer | ... | Consuelo |
 | John Gilbert | ... | Bezano |
 | Ruth King | ... | Maria Beaumont |
| Marc McDermott | ... | Baron Regnard |
| Ford Sterling | ... | Tricaud |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Count Mancini |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Edward Arnold | ... | Extra (uncredited) |
| Holly Bane | ... | Child in Circus Audience (uncredited) |
| Bartine Burkett | ... | Bareback Rider (uncredited) |
| Harvey Clark | ... | Briquet (uncredited) |
| Clyde Cook | ... | A Clown (uncredited) |
| Carrie Daumery | ... | Extra (uncredited) |
| George Davis | ... | A Clown (uncredited) |
| Paulette Duval | ... | Zinida (uncredited) |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | A Clown (uncredited) |
 | Bela Lugosi | ... | Clown Extra (unconfirmed) (uncredited) |
| Erik Stocklassa | ... | Ringmaster (uncredited) |
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| Victor Sjöström | (as Victor Seastrom) | ||
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| Leonid Andreyev | (play) | |
| Carey Wilson | (adapted for the screen by) | |
| Victor Sjöström | (adaptation) (as Victor Seastrom) | |
Produced by | |||
| Victor Sjöström | .... | producer (as Victor Seastrom) | |
| Irving Thalberg | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
Original Music by | |||
| William Axt | (uncredited) | ||
Cinematography by | |||
| Milton Moore | (photography by) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Hugh Wynn | (film editor) | ||
Costume Design by | |||
| Sophie Wachner | (costumes by) | ||
Art Department | |||
| Cedric Gibbons | .... | settings | |
Other crew | |||
| Louis B. Mayer | .... | presents | |
| Gregory Zillboorg | .... | play translated by | |
Production Companies
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (produced by) (controlled by Loew's Incorporated)
- Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1924) (USA) (theatrical) (released through)
- Universum Film (UFA) (1925) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (2010) (USA) (DVD) (DVD-R)
- Theatre Guild play produced by (as The Theatre Guild Inc.)
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Sweden:95 min | USA:80 min (original release) | 71 min (TCM print)
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George Davis, who appears in the film as a clown, was a vaudeville performer who been a clown in Europe. He appeared in U.S, French, German, English, and Italian films. He coached Lon Chaney for his role.See more »
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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.See more »
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Opening Dialogue Card:In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best.See more »
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Referenced in (500) Days of Summer (2009)See more »
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A celebrated circus clown, HE Who Gets Slapped, plots the punishment of two evil aristocrats.
Lon Chaney, the Silent Screen's master chameleon, adds another portrait to his gallery of pathetic grotesques. This time he plays a scientist who becomes a clown after his former life is destroyed by his adulterous wife and a faithless friend. A young woman provides him with someone to secretly adore, until her wicked father threatens to ruin her happiness. Chaney's face is an absolute wonder to watch as it registers pain, anguish, distress and unrequited passion, underlining the modern reassessment of him as one of cinema's greatest actors. Uninhibited in his circus costume & makeup, he provides no doubt but that he, under different circumstances, could have become a marvelous big top clown.
This was the first release of the new film company merger Metro-Goldwyn, thus making Chaney their first star, and was an important rung up the ladder for the two performers playing the young lovers. Norma Shearer & John Gilbert would soon be major movie celebrities--here they give good account of themselves as the circus' daredevil & bareback riders, and as Chaney's truest friends (both unaware of his love for Miss Shearer). In a film full of circus excitement, the director has given the young couple a moment of unexpected beauty: whilst on a picnic their innocent affections are noticed by a passing peasant, who gives the call of the cuckoo as the perfect grace note to their bucolic joy.
Marc McDermott as a brutal Baron and Tully Marshall as a dissolute Count make villains well worthy of the harshest retribution. Comic Ford Sterling plays one of Chaney's fellow clowns.
The Studio gave this silent film fine production values, while director Victor Sjöström added little embellishments of cinematic flair, dealing with scenes of mysterious clown figures representing fate, which enhance the film.