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.

• DirectorVictor Sjöström
• Release22 December 1924
• Genre
  Drama / Thriller
• Duration1h 12m
• Budget$172,000
• Revenue$881,000
• Rate
  

  7.62
  92 reviews
• Productions

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer