He Who Gets Slapped

Original title: He Who Gets Slapped

72 minutes • 1924 • 7.6 Score

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.

Victor Sjöström

Director