HE Who Gets Slapped (1924) Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert (silent)

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HE Who Gets Slapped (1924)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014972/
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Year:1924

Runtime: 95 minutes

Film Language:English

Film Country:USA

Genre(s):Drama, Thriller

Filmed in:Black and White,Color

Sound:Silent



Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.



Directed by

Victor Sjöström (as Victor Seastrom)



Writing credits

Leonid Andreyev play

Victor Sjöström (adaptation) (as Victor Seastrom)

Carey Wilson adaptation



Cast

Lon Chaney ... Paul Beaumont / HE

Norma Shearer ... Consuelo

John Gilbert ... Bezano

Tully Marshall ... Count Mancini

Marc McDermott ... Baron Regnard

Ford Sterling ... Tricaud

Harvey Clark ... Briquet (as Harvey Clarke)

Paulette Duval ... Zinida

Ruth King ... Maria Beaumont

Clyde Cook ... A Clown

Brandon Hurst ... A Clown

George Davis ... A Clown

Edward Arnold ... Extra (uncredited)

Holly Bane ... Child in circus audience (uncredited)

Bartine Burkett ... Bareback Rider (uncredited)

Carrie Daumery ... Extra (uncredited)

Bela Lugosi ... Clown Extra (unconfirmed) (uncredited)

Erik Stocklassa ... Ringmaster (uncredited)





Produced by

Louis B. Mayer .... producer

Irving Thalberg .... producer (uncredited)



Original Music by

William Axt (uncredited)



Cinematography by

Milton Moore



Film Editing by

Hugh Wynn



Art Direction by

Cedric Gibbons



Costume Design by

Sophie Wachner



Other crew

Gregory Zilboorg .... translator









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TRIVIA



This was the first production to start filming in the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was not their first release, though; it was held until the holiday season when attendance is higher for "important" films.





The first film to feature Leo the Lion roaring as MGM's logo. Designed by Howard Dietz, the logo was first used for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation film Polly of the Circus (1917) and passed to MGM when Goldwyn merged with two other companies to form MGM.





"He Who Gets Slapped" was originally a Russian book by Leonid Andreyev and was translated into English and adapted for the stage by Gregory Zilboorg. It opened on Jan. 9, 1922 at the Garrick Theatre in New York and ran for 182 performances. With the exception of Consuelo (Norma Shearer's character), most of the characters in the stage production did not have names. The Lon Chaney character in the play was simply "He", and the others "a Juggler," "an Acrobat", etc. MGM did not credit Gregory Zilboorg for his theatrical adaptation.





George Davis, who appears in the film as a clown, was a vaudeville performer who been a clown in Europe. He appeared in U.S, French, German, English, and Italian films. He coached Lon Chaney for his role in "He Who Gets Slapped".





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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.

Chaney and cast deliver in the first MGM film, 20 February 2004



Author: BL from Cherry Hill, New Jersey



Bravo to Turner Classic Movies for making available, once again, the cinematic art of one of the best actors ever, Lon Chaney. As Andreyev's disappointed scientist turned circus clown, Paul Beaumont, Chaney makes the most of every scene he's in, and never disappoints. We feel the agony of his hopeless love for the lovely bareback rider Consuelo, as well as the seething anger toward the man who ruined his life, the despicable Baron Renard. It's a far better performance, in my opinion, than his similar role four years later in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," much more understated and, therefore, much more involving.



But that's not to take away from the other performances, by any means. Norma Shearer, in her first major role as Consuelo, is suitably attractive and gives a good performance, but to see her at her best is to see such '30's classics as "A Free Soul" and especially "Marie Antoinette." There, she was a mature actress; here, she was a promising newcomer. John Gilbert already shows that he had the goods to become one of the top leading men of the '20's, managing to convey virility even in multicolored tights. And Marc McDermott and old veteran Tully Marshall make two of the best silent villains ever as the aforementioned Baron and as Consuelo's father, an impoverished nobleman ready to force his daughter into marrying the Baron just to improve his fortunes, respectively. You're genuinely glad, at an almost visceral level, when they wind up getting what they deserve in the end.



I don't know who composed the music score used in the print seen on TCM, but it's excellent and really compliments the action.



Victor Seastrom's moody direction is perfect, especially his use of a globe-spinning clown to serve as sort of a Greek chorus at various points in the film.



In short, this is a true silent classic, silent film making at its' best, and well worth seeing.



22 out of 24 people found the following comment useful :-

Tears of a Clown, 26 October 2005



Author: nyc



*** This comment may contain spoilers ***



Considered the very first MGM production (which featured the well known lion amidst its emblem), this is not a horror story despite the presence of Lon Chaney (who starred in a number of successful Grand Guignol-themed films), but something of a love story, even if Chaney loves from afar and goes to extreme lengths to protect the object of his affection. He plays Paul Beaumont, a failed scientist who has been slapped -- literally -- by the science community, his wife Maria (Ruth King), and her sponsor/lover, the Baron Regnard (Mark McDermott). Defeated, he has retreated to the underbelly of society: the world of the circus freaks. As the clown HE, Beaumont is the man with the main attraction, a routine in which he gets slapped hundreds of times by other clowns -- a repetition of his humiliation inciting uproarious laughter from the audience. The only thing which lights him up is the ingénue Consuelo (Norma Shearer in an early role) whom he loves in silence. She in turn loves Bezano (John Gilberrt), but is about to be forced into marriage to the Baron. Here is when HE concocts a terrible revenge to protect Consuelo.



A classic romantic setup with eerie undertones, HE WHO GETS SLAPPED is an excellent film which makes us feel pity for this mistreated man, portrayed by Lon Chaney like no one could. The quintessential wronged man, he plays the crying clown to the extreme, and while we know and accept he will not get the girl -- Chaney rarely did -- the element of pathos is there. His performance in this movie is one of the most moving of all cinema history, and it takes a special type of talent to embrace the grotesque and delve so deep into human pain. Even the inter-cuts in which HE spins a massive globe have a frenetic tragic quality about them: he is effectively spinning the law of fate.



As a footnote, this was not Norma Shearer's first performance (her first recorded appearance dates from 1920 as an extra) but it is the first she did for MGM, playing an ingénue although she was 24 years old at the time. As the object of the love Consuelo ignores, she is apt but pales in comparison to her co-star. Chaney is the life, the soul, the very reason of this story's existence.





16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-

My all time favorite!, 27 September 1999



Author: APK from La Crosse, Wisconsin





Before I saw "He Who Get's Slapped" my 3 favorite movies were The Empire Strikes Back, Evil Dead 2, and Star Trek II.



This movie is 180 degrees from any of those movies, in fact, it's in a whole other universe. This silent film that opened in 1924 changed my movie tastes so much that it's amazing. I was just flicken channels one night after studying for a final for 3 hours and stopped on TCM for a second because Robert Osborne said that it starred Lon Chaney. In my niavete, I thought he was talking about the guy who played The Wolf Man, but this is in fact Lon Chaney Sr. Junior is the guy who had played Wolfie.



So I started watching it and was about to change it when I found out it was a silent film. But I stayed with it for a few minutes, and soon I was enraptured. 2 hours later, I was riveted to the edge of my seat as HE's struggle came to a climax. Well, the next day, I failed the test. But I learned more watching that movie than I could ever learn in Calc 320.



Since then, I have watched TCM religiously (when I'm not studying of course) and now I realize that 99% of movies made in modern times are vastly inferior to the old classic movies.



Black and White RULES



If you haven't seen He Who Gets Slapped. Track it down and WATCH IT. It is WAY better than The Phantom Menace.



10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-

Lon Chaney's best film?, 9 May 2001



Author: ff from Oakland CA



I think one could argue that "He Who Gets Slapped" is Lon Chaney's best film. Since Lon Chaney is the greatest character actor of all time, this makes it a must-see (a term I abhor) for everyone. The way to watch this movie is as a sort of twisted fairy tale. The Melodrama exists to satisfy audience demands but there is much more going on here, and what's beautiful is that it is happening in a way that affects the viewer even if he or she isn't aware of it. Lon Chaney's performance is heartbreaking, particularly when he carries the cloth heart that has been torn from his breast, but at other moments he is sadistic and vengeful, as when he lets the lions out to kill a scheming circus manager and a sotted aristocrat. When I watch this scene I admit that I am laughing with Lon -- you have to love it! Norma Shearer and John Gilbert..... nobody ever had a better supporting cast. The circus theme is a parable for the world of human relations, where we are often called upon to amuse others instead of showing our true feelings. Lon's performance is a classic of self-torture and humiliation, and this movie should be remembered for all time as establishing MGM on the track that made it Hollywood's all time greatest studio.





(Classics are my life)

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