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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Lon Chaney
• Norma Shearer
• John Gilbert
• Ruth King
• Marc McDermott
• Ford Sterling
• Tully Marshall
• Edward Arnold