He Who Gets Slapped

In this hauntingly powerful silent film, Lon Chaney stars as Paul Beaumont, a scientist who discovers his life's work has been stolen from him and humiliated in front of the world by his patron, Baron Regnard. Five years later, Beaumont has transformed into "HE Who Gets Slapped", a clown for a small circus near Paris, where he becomes infatuated with Consuelo, the daughter of a impoverished count, who is soon to be married to the wealthy Baron.