After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Lon Chaney Paul Beaumont
Norma Shearer Consuelo
John Gilbert Bezano
Ruth King Marie Beaumont
Marc McDermott Baron Regnard
Ford Sterling Tricaud
Tully Marshall Count Mancini
Edward Arnold (uncredited)
Paulette Duval Zinida (uncredited)
Brandon Hurst Clown (uncredited)
Toby Wing Playing Child (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
Bela Lugosi Extra (uncredited)