He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

Director: Victor Sjöström
Cast: Edward Arnold, Ford Sterling, John Gilbert, Lon Chaney, Marc McDermott, Norma Shearer, Ruth King, Tully Marshall

Synopsis:

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.