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
as Paul Beaumont
Norma Shearer
as Consuelo
John Gilbert
as Bezano
Ruth King
as Marie Beaumont
Marc McDermott
as Baron Regnard
Ford Sterling
as Tricaud
Tully Marshall
as Count Mancini
Edward Arnold
as (uncredited)
Paulette Duval
as Zinida (uncredited)
Brandon Hurst
as Clown (uncredited)
Toby Wing
as Playing Child (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
as Spectator at Final Performance (uncredited)
