He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Directed by Victor Sjöström · 72 min · Drama, Thriller, Romance
24.8 TOPICAL score · #4,033 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
He Who Gets Slapped (1924, directed by Victor Sjöström) has a TOPICAL score of 24.8 - ranked 4,033 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on historical impact and audience, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 7.5/10 (114 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 22 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 7.5/10 (114 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 22 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read4,573 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer (actor #744), John Gilbert (actor #1,505), Ruth King