the original silent film based on victor hugo's novel that inspired sardonicus and of course the joker from batman. conrad veidt in the lead role is much more sympathetic than those characters and it's as much a love story as gothic horror, like hunchback of notre dame and phant...( read more)
Despite that garish poster that makes this look like a horror, this is actually a romance. It's a sweet piece of silent cinema that uses it's visuals to full affect. Veidt is fantastic. Having to grin all the time must have made it difficult to convey emotions other than happines...( read more)
While The Man Who Laughs certainly had some great imagery and set a decent atmosphere, the drawn out story and overextended shots bored the ass off of me. You've seen the story dozens of times before even though this is one of the earliest of incantations. If the obvious Joker in...( read more)
Great silent film.Was it just me or did The Duchess look like Madonna???
The story revolves around a man called Gwynplaine played by the great Conrad Veidt. His father is Lord Clancharlie who has recently returned to his lands from a forced exile in order to see his son. He is discovered and captured by the local ruler and eventually consigned to deat...( read more)
What a disappointment. This movie was caught in between a couple different genres and got somewhat confusing. I just wish it would have been a full on Horror film; I think it would have been a much better movie that way. The costumes and sets were all lavish and nice, but it almo...( read more)
The score was really odd. :/
And I didn't care much for the ime between the scenes with the traveling circus, but I still loved the story anyway.
Some of it really could have used expanding, so a lot is left to the audience's interpretation of what's happening.
Touching performances by Veidt and the rest of the cast. Such a gripping romance/drama/horror film.
This film is not similar to Batman, but it did inspire the creation of The Joker
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don't you think heath ledger's make-up in new batman dark knight resembles the look of "man who laughs"
this (supposedly) was the inspiration for the original Joker character for Batman...
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