Painted Faces (1929)

Laughs-Thrills-Tears In the Love Story of a Clown Acrobat Who Took a Heart Tumble.

After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.