

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.
Directed by Victor Sjöström
User score
108 votes

Released
December 22, 1924
1h 12m
No Language
Budget → Revenue
$172K → $881K

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)