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The Man Who Laughs

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1hr 50min

Genre:

Drama

Release:

1927

Director:

Paul Leni

Distributor:

Kino

Starring:

Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova ...more

Synopsis: Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee, Paul Leni's near masterpiece remains one of the silent era's last great romantic melodramas. Based on Victor Hugo's 1869 novel L'Homme qui Rit, The Man Who Laughs starred German import Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine, a carnival freak doomed to live life wearing a perpetual grin carved on his face by Dr Hardquannone (George Siegman because his father, Lord Clancharlie ... Full Synopsis

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	Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review German director Paul Leni's second film for Universal, The Man Who Laughs, remains a stirring experience. Begun as yet another fantastic vehicle for Lon Chaney, the drama instead stars Conrad Veidt, who possessed the one quality that Chaney perhaps lacked: sex appeal. With Veidt in the role, it is not totally inconceivable that Olga Baclanova's duchess, never mind how decadent, could be attracted to ... Full Review

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	Conrad Veidt Gwynplaine Mary Philbin Dea Olga Baclanova Duchess Josiana Josephine Crowell Queen Anne

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