The Man Who Laughs Movie Review 1927

Veidt's sensitive performance highlights this silent classic. He plays a young man whose features are surgically altered into a permanent smile because his family are political enemies of the current ruler. The man is befriended by the owner of a sideshow who first exhibits him as a freak but later finds Veidt gaining fame as a clown. A beautiful blind girl in the show loves Veidt for who he is and the two find happiness.

Distribution

Grapevine Video, PO Box 46161, Phoenix, AZ 85063, Phone: (602)973-3661, Fax: (602)973-2973, Email: jbhandy@grapevinevideo.com, URL: http://www.grapevinevideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 110 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Carnivals & Circuses, Silent Films, Clowns

Cast

Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann, Brandon Hurst

Director

Paul Leni

Producer

Carl Laemmle, Mark Huffam