He who gets slapped [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Louis B. Mayer presents Victor Seastrom's production ; produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation ; released through Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation ; adapted for the screen by Carey Wilson and Victor Seastrom ; directed by Victor Seastrom.
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott, Ford Sterling, Tully Marshall. "Adapted from Leonid Andreyev's play as produced by The Theatre Guild, Inc., translated by Gregory Zillbourg." Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924. "This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."
Summary:
Slap him once, slap him 100 times, the Big Top crowd roars. The clown known to delighted throngs as HE has made a comedic art of getting batted around. Life has battered him even more. Behind the mask, HE hides the torment of once being a brilliant scientist whose research and wife were stolen by a colleague. And behind the mask, when the time comes, HE realizes his revenge.
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