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.
DramaThrillerRomancecircusclownclowningbased on play or musicalloveremaketragedybetrayalunrequited lovesilent filmbetrayal by friendslap
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- Lon ChaneyPaul Beaumont
- Norma ShearerConsuelo
- John GilbertBezano
- Ruth KingMarie Beaumont
- Marc McDermottBaron Regnard
- Ford SterlingTricaud
- Tully MarshallCount Mancini
- Edward Arnold(uncredited)
- Paulette DuvalZinida (uncredited)
- Brandon HurstClown (uncredited)
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- Victor SjöströmDirector
- Milton MooreDirector of Photography
- Hugh WynnEditor
- Victor SjöströmProducer
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