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HE WHO GETS SLAPPED with live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner

Monday, February 26 at 6:20

Longtime Film Forum accompanist provides a live piano score for a special screening of Victor Sjöström’s HE WHO GETS SLAPPED on Monday, February 26 at 6:20. 

(1924) MGM’s very first production stars three of the silent screen’s greatest stars – Lon Chaney, John Gilbert and Norma Shearer – in Sjöström’s lyrical drama of circus life. “Man of a Thousand Faces” Chaney is the “He” of the title, an embittered scientist who joins the circus as a clown. 16mm print courtesy Yale Film Archive.

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Monday, February 26

6:20

Film Forum