He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

"He Who Gets Slapped" is a 1924 Drama movie directed by Cedric Gibbons and starring by Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer. 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.