He Who Gets Slapped
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.
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Uniquely weird, compelling silent classic about a scientist who is discredited by a treacherous colleague and, humiliated, decides to join a circus as a clown. Excellent moving performance by Lon Chaney as the scientist/clown. Also stars John Gilbert and Norma Shearer. Colorized using DeOldify technology. No soundtrack. IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014972 (Note: Although this movie is public domain, the colorization is copyright by me. My colorized movies are freely uploaded for free personal use. Please don't put them on your own YouTube channel and monetize them. Thanks.)
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He Who Gets Slapped (1924) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Internet Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Victor Sjöström
- Starring
- Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott, Ford Sterling, Tully Marshall, Edward Arnold
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