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.
Genre
Romance, Thriller, Drama
Director
Victor Sjöström
Cast
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott
