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You can watch Painted Faces (1929) for free on Fawesome.

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.

A clown with a heavy Scandinavian accent becomes the unexpected moral compass of a tense courtroom drama. This silent-era relic finds its soul in a juror who refuses to let a fellow performer fall to a frame-up.