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Synopsis
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) is a silent American drama you can watch online on iFILM — the first film ever released by MGM. Directed by Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström, it adapts Leonid Andreyev's 1914 Russian stage play: a scientist loses his discoveries, his wife, and his public standing to a baron he thought was his friend.
He disappears, then resurfaces in a Parisian circus under the stage name HE — a clown whose entire act is to stand in a ring and be slapped. Lon Chaney plays him with a quiet that unsettles long before you understand why. Norma Shearer is the aerialist he falls for; the baron is still close. A century old and still precise about what humiliation does to a person. Stream He Who Gets Slapped (1924) online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring
Lon Chaney
Paul Beaumont
Norma Shearer
Consuelo
John Gilbert
Bezano
Ruth King
Marie Beaumont
Marc McDermott
Baron Regnard
Ford Sterling
Tricaud
Tully Marshall
Count Mancini
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)
Victor Sjöström
crew
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