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Box office. $881,000 [2] He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, [3] [4] and directed by Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom). The film was written by Victor Seastrom and Carey Wilson, based on the Russian play He Who Gets Slapped ( Тот, кто ...
- Victor Seastrom, Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
He Who Gets Slapped: Directed by Victor Sjöström. With Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King. A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Victor Sjöström
- 1924-12-22
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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He Who Gets Slapped was Chaney's first film at MGM, where he would continue a lucrative association until his death in 1930. The film marked the American debut of Swedish director Victor Seastrom. Thalberg cast John Gilbert as the male horseback rider and Norma Shearer, in her first prestigious assignment at MGM, as the object of Chaney's ...
- Victor Seastrom
- Lon Chaney
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
After Baron Regnard (Marc MacDermott) steals both his greatest invention and his wife, scientist Paul Beaumont (Lon Chaney) loses all self-regard and joins a circus sideshow to become the most ...
- Drama
He Who Gets Slapped was in production between June 17 and July 28, 1924. It ran seven reels and, according to its copyright registration, featured amber-tinted sequences. He Who Gets Slapped was the first production of the newly formed MGM, but not its first release. The film was held back to benefit by a holiday release, opening on November 3 ...
