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Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney.
Photo: courtesy UCLA Film and Television Archive. |
HE Who Gets Slapped
(1924) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Victor Seastrom (Victor Sjöström) Victor Sjostrom
Cast: Lon Chaney [He], Norma Shearer [Consuelo], John Gilbert [Bezamo], Tully Marshall [Count Mancini], Ford Sterling [Tricand], Marc McDermott (Marc MacDermott) [Baron Regnard], Harvey Clarke [Briquet], Paulette Duval [Zinida], Ruth King [He’s wife], Clyde Cook [clown], Brandon Hurst [clown], George Davis [clown]
Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Louis B. Mayer. Scenario by Victor Sjöström and Carey Wilson, from the adaptation by Carey Wilson of the play Tot, Kto Poluchaet Poshchechiny (He, the One Who Gets Slapped) by Leonid Andreyev. / © 10 November 1924 [LP20745]. New York premiere 9 November 1924. General release 22 December 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.2341.
Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Keywords: Betrayal - Circuses - Clowns - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - France - Lions - Revenge - Scientists - Seduction
Listing updated: 15 November 2004.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.2341; Bardèche-History p. 264; Carroll-Matinee p. 140; Cowie-Swedish-2 p. 15; Eames-MGM pp. 10, 15; Edmonds-BigU p. 137; Fell-History p. 86; Forslund-Sjöström p. 279; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 100; Limbacher-Feature p. 104; McIlroy-Sweden pp. 23, 24-26, 166; Shipman-Cinema p. 84; Sweeney-Coming pp. 63, 71; Weaver-Twenty pp. 77, 143 : ClasIm-225 p. 44; ClasIm-240 p. 44.
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