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The Man Who Laughs (1928) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 30, 2003
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA
Studio Universal
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Other Titles
• The Man Who Laughs
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Genre: Drama, Epic, Betrayal, Melodrama, Period Piece, Disturbing, Tear Jerker, Society, Revenge, Love
Plot: This horror classic was produced by Universal (beginning that studio's string of brilliant horror movies) in response to the success of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Universal chose two luminaries of German Expressionism, director Paul Leni and actor Conrad Veidt, for the film and in doing so introduced a new and highly influential aesthetic to American movies.The film stars Veidt as Gwynplaine, the son of an aristocrat who is kidnapped for political reasons before being disfigured by a gypsy surgeon, who leaves the boy's face paralyzed in a contorted smile. Finding refuge in a traveling theatre troupe, Gwynplaine's lineage is eventually discovered and he soon finds himself being pulled back into the social and political world he was taken from as a boy. Featuring a masterful performance from Veidt along with beautiful and haunting photography, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS is one of the silent era's great horror films.
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| Directed by |
Paul Leni
The Cat and the Canary, Wachsfigurenkabinett, Das |
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| Cast |
Mary Philbin
The Phantom of the Opera, Foolish Wives, Drums of Love | Conrad Veidt
Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Thief of Bagdad | | | Brandon Hurst
White Zombie, House of Frankenstein, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | | Stuart Holmes
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, A Letter to Three Wives, Designing Woman | |
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