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The Man Who Laughs
Directed by
Paul Leni
Not Rated
1928
1h 50m
Drama
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Horror
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7.6
100%
87%
7.3
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When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
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Cast of The Man Who Laughs
Conrad Veidt
Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
Mary Philbin
Dea
Cesare Gravina
Ursus
Brandon Hurst
Barkilphedro
Olga Baclanova
Duchess Josiana
Sam De Grasse
King James II
Stuart Holmes
Lord Dirry-Moir
Josephine Crowell
Queen Anne
Julius Molnar
Young Gwynplaine
Károly Huszár
Innkeeper
Deno Fritz
Sword Swallower
Delmo Fritz
Sword Swallower
Henry A. Barrows
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Richard Bartlett
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Charles Brinley
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Les Bates
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Carmen Castillo
Dea's Mother (uncredited)
Allan Cavan
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
D'Arcy Corrigan
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Carrie Daumery
Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
The Man Who Laughs Ratings & Reviews
Judge
Pare Lorentz
I have never seen a better representation of the spirit of a novel in that the picture not only interprets the lusty romantic feeling of Hugo's story, but it is sufficient unto itself and has no awkward turns or incongruous passages.
Washington Star
Star Staff
Conrad Veidt does a wonderful piece of acting.
CBR
Howard Waldstein
The Man Who Laughs is a timeless tale of woe, full of pathos and mourning.
PopMatters
Lee Broughton
The Man Who Laughs represents silent filmmaking at its creative best.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Though an early entry in dramatic horror, it tackles some remarkably dark and mature themes.
Bay Area Reporter
Erin Blackwell
...instantly breathtaking...
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Veidt is the beating heart of The Man Who Laughs, anchoring its grotesqueries in a sense of tragedy and pathos.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
Leni's mastery of framing, depth, lighting and blocking are rivaled only by Veidt's performance, a thing of flawless beauty.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Veidt gives one of cinema's most sensitive and moving performances.
TIME Magazine
The Man Who Laughs is a truly great, a devastatingly beautiful film.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
As usual in Hugo, love is measured in sacrifice, yielding a sincere and extravagant sense of romance.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Truly amazing.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
This production has been fashioned with considerable skill. It is, of course, a gruesome tale in which the horror is possibly moderated but none the less disturbing.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the final treasures of German silent Expressionism.
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
Poised between the great German horror that preceded it and the great Universal horror that followed, it is, for genre fans, an inviting and necessary stop.
PopMatters
David Sanjek
The Man Who Laughs demonstrates that, however much we gained with sound, we lost opportunities that arise when storytelling prioritizes vision.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
While this is a flawed film, it boasts some of the most impressive acting of the silent era. It certainly has sharpened my interest in Veidt.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
An expressionistic masterpiece of spooky, fairy tale Poe-meets-Perrault imagery...
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
The film's fascination with bric-a-brac and its tendency towards spare, minimalist compositions is evidence of a stylistic schism.
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