Name: Silent Cinema Showcase: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED w/ live accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson
Start: 2024-11-10T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-10T19:50:00-05:00
Location: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

$Silent Cinema Showcase: HE WHO GETS SLAPPED w\/ live accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson$

HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) 100th Anniversary with live musical accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson
Swedish master Victor Sjöström (THE WIND) wrings great pathos from Lon Chaney at his most operatically and existentially pained. Chaney portrays Paul Beaumont, a brilliant scientist who suffers the dual traumas of having his dreams shattered by a failed invention and his heart broken by a faithless wife. Now a broken man, Beaumont joins the circus as a very, very sad clown who specializes in being the butt of jokes in a cruel slapstick revue. Also starring Norma Shearer and John Gilbert, this film was an early example of MGM star packaging, pioneered by young production chief Irving Thalberg. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED
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