THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
A muddle raised up as an all-time great because of the power of one simple image. I'm here to tell you it was not enough then and it was not enough now. This is not a good movie, damn it, though it easily could have been and that's even worse.
1928
Directed by Paul Leni
Written by J. Grubb Alexander, Walter Anthony, May McLean, Marion Ward, and Charles E. Whittaker (based on the novel by Victor Hugo)
With Conrad Veidt (Baron Gwynplaine Clancharlie), Mary Philbin (Dea), Brandon Hurst (Barkilphedro), Olga Baclanova (Duchess Josiana), Cesare Gravina (Ursus), and Josephine Cowell (Queen Anne Stuart)
The Monsters Mashed series intends to be a look back at the horror cinema of the Before Times.
Spoiler alert: severe
