He Who Gets Slapped

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.

• circus
• clown
• clowning
• based on play or musical
• love
• remake
• tragedy
• betrayal
• unrequited love
• silent film
• betrayal by friend
• slap
• circus clown
• circus performer