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.

Cast:Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King, Marc McDermott, Ford Sterling,

Genre:Drama, Thriller, Romance,

country:United States of America,

Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,