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He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert. It was directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is significant for a number of reasons, foremost being that it was the first production to start filming in the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was not, however, MGM's first released movie, as the release was postponed until Christmastime when higher attendance was expected. This movie was also the first film to feature the MGM lion.

The story is based on the Russian play "Tot, kto poluchayet poshchechini" (published in 1914 and made into a Russian movie in 1916) and follows 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.

A commercial and artistic success in its time, to many today it would seem dated.

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