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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.
Theatrical
Dec 22, 1924
Box Office
$881K
Budget
$172K
Return
5.1x
Theaters
1
Quotes
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Taglines
Victor Seastrom's production of the famous stage play by Leonid Andreyev.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Clashing Views on Clowns and Barons
Baron Regnard
I hate clowns!
Paul Beaumont
I hate Barons!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →L
Lon Chaney
Paul Beaumont
N
Norma Shearer
Consuelo
J
John Gilbert
Bezano
R
Ruth King
Marie Beaumont
M
Marc McDermott
Baron Regnard
F
Ford Sterling
Tricaud
T
Tully Marshall
Count Mancini
E
Edward Arnold
(uncredited)
P
Paulette Duval
Zinida (uncredited)
B
Brandon Hurst
Clown (uncredited)
T
Toby Wing
Playing Child (uncredited)
P
Pierre Watkin
Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
B
Bela Lugosi
Extra (uncredited)
C
Clyde Cook
Clown (uncredited)
