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The Man Who Laughs: Directed by Paul Leni. With Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova. 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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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Paul Leni
- 1928-11-04
Pathé had produced L'Homme qui rit in France in 1908, and the Austrian film company Olympic-Film released a low-budget German version in 1921 as Das grinsende Gesicht. Despite Chaney's contract, production did not begin. Universal had failed to acquire film rights to the Hugo novel from the French studio Société Générale des Films.
Director Paul Leni was a German emigre to Hollywood whose career was tragically cut short when he died of blood poisoning brought on by an untreated ulcerated tooth. Shortly before he died, he would blend his talent for expressionism with a great cast to make The Man Who Laughs (1928), based on the book by Victor Hugo.
- Paul Leni
- Conrad Veidt
Feb 12, 2024 · The Comprachicos being gypsy traders in stolen children; And Practicing certain Unlawful Surgical Arts, whereby they Carve the living Flesh of these Children and transform them into Monstrous Clowns and Jesters. Therefore all Comprachicos and hereby banished from England under pain of death. James.
OCLC. 49383068. The Man Who Laughs (also published under the title By Order of the King from its subtitle in French) [1] is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. It takes place in England beginning in 1690 and extends into the early 18th century reign of Queen Anne.
- Victor Marie Hugo
- 1869
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 (Allan Cavan), had offended England's King James II (Sam De Grasse).
Jan 1, 2024 · Media for the 1928 United States silent film The Man Who Laughs. ... 1928 silent film by Paul Leni ... L'Homme qui rit;
