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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand FacesFilm 7 of 14
He Who Gets Slapped
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Victor Seastrom, MGM, 1924, from Leonid Andreyev’s play. The first feature the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put its lion on. Lon Chaney is a scientist whose work and wife are stolen; he becomes a clown whose act is being slapped while the house laughs. Norma Shearer is the bareback rider; John Gilbert the rider she loves; Marc McDermott the baron who already ruined him. Chaney does it with the face, not a hump. The circus is a machine for turning private shame into a number. Seastrom had just come from Sweden.
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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
The one without a monster kit. A scientist whose work and wife are stolen becomes a clown whose act is being slapped while the house laughs. Sjöström, just off the boat from Sweden, shoots the circus as a machine for shame. Chaney does it with the face. The first film under the MGM lion.
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