He Who Gets Slapped [DVD REGION:1 USA] Black & White, Full Frame USA import

Warner Archives

He Who Gets Slapped [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Black & White, Full Frame

Title: He Who Gets Slapped

Format: DIGITAL VIDEO DISC

Label: Warner Archives

Genre: Drama-Classics, Drama-Classics (Silent Films)

UPC: 883316289815

Release Date: 2010

Slap him once, slap him 100 times ' the Big Top crowd roars. The clown known to delighted throngs as HE has made a comedic art of getting batted around. Life has battered him even more. Behind the mask, HE hides the torment of once being a brilliant scientist whose research and wife were stolen by a colleague. And behind the mask, when the time comes, HE realizes his revenge. Lon Chaney wears one of the most renowned of his 1000 Faces in an acclaimed silent that helped make major stars of Norma Shearer and John Gilbert. Victor Seastrom directs, guiding scenes ranging from light-hearted circus vignettes to dark pathos. This first-ever film solely created by MGM also marks the studio's first use of Leo the Lion.