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	Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney. Photograph: courtesy UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Cast: Lon Chaney [Paul Beaumont, later known as He], Norma Shearer [Consuelo], John Gilbert [Bezamo], Tully Marshall [Count Mancini], Ford Sterling [Tricand, a clown], Marc McDermott [Baron Regnard], Harvey Clarke (Harvey Clark) [Briquet], Paulette Duval [Zinida], Ruth King [Marie Beaumont, He’s wife], Erik Stocklassa [the ringmaster], Joseph Hazelton [a professor], George Marion [a professor], Clyde Cook [a clown], George Davis [a clown], Brandon Hurst [a clown], Alice Belcher, Bartine Burkett, Carrie Daumery, F.F. Guenste, Scotty Mattraw, Arthur Millett, Mike Ragan, Dorothy Seay, Ellinor Vanderveer, Pierre Watkin, Toby Wing

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Louis B. Mayer. Scenario by Victor Sjöström and Carey Wilson, from the adaptation by Carey Wilson of the play adaptation He Who Gets Slapped by Gregory Zilboorg of the play Tot, Kto Poluchaet Poshchechiny (He, the One Who Gets Slapped) by Leonid Andreyev. Production design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Sophie Wachner. Cinematography by Milton Moore. Film editor, Hugh Wynn. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee. Presented by Louis B. Mayer. / © 10 November 1924 by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP20745]. Premiered 9 November 1924 in New York, New York. General release, 22 December 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama. Victor Sjostrom

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.2341.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Betrayal - Circuses - Clowns - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - France - Lions - Revenge - Scientists - Seduction

Listing updated: 27 April 2025.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.2341; Bardèche-History p. 264; Carroll-Matinee p. 140; Cowie-Swedish-2 p. 15; Eames-MGM pp. 10, 15; Edmonds-BigU p. 137; Fell-History pp. 86, 124; Forslund-Sjöström p. 279; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 100; Limbacher-Feature p. 104; McIlroy-Sweden pp. 23, 24-26, 166; Shipman-Cinema p. 84; Sweeney-Coming pp. 63, 71; Weaver-Twenty pp. 77, 143 : ClasIm-225 p. 44; ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.