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Blu-ray

He who gets slapped

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

Silent film with musical accompaniment and English intertitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall.

Publication Information

[Los Angeles, CA] : Flicker Alley, [2025]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (95 minutes) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

HE is a tortured clown whose signature act is receiving an endless series of slaps to the face. Unknown to the cheering crowd, however, HE is disgraced scientist Paul Beaumont who, robbed of his research and publicly humiliated by the evil Baron Regnard, has spent the last five years intricately staging a most bizarre and twisted revenge.

Notes

"Flicker Fusion"--Container.

Adapted from the play by Leonid Andreyev.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924.

Bonus features: Audio commentary by Emmy award-winning makeup artist and Lon Chaney expert Michael F. Blake ; He who gets smacked (1925) ; Koko at the circus (1926) ; Leo, the truth and the lion (2025) ; image galleries.

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