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L'uomo che ride

Titolo originale: The Man Who Laughs
  • 1928
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 50min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
7,6/10
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LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, Sam De Grasse, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes, Brandon Hurst, Edgar Norton, Mary Philbin, George Siegmann, and Conrad Veidt in L'uomo che ride (1928)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhen a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.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.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.

  • Regia
    • Paul Leni
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Victor Hugo
    • J. Grubb Alexander
    • Walter Anthony
  • Star
    • Mary Philbin
    • Conrad Veidt
    • Julius Molnar
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    7,6/10
    8774
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Paul Leni
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Victor Hugo
      • J. Grubb Alexander
      • Walter Anthony
    • Star
      • Mary Philbin
      • Conrad Veidt
      • Julius Molnar
    • 95Recensioni degli utenti
    • 53Recensioni della critica
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    Mary Philbin
    Mary Philbin
    • Dea
    Conrad Veidt
    Conrad Veidt
    • Gwynplaine…
    Julius Molnar
    • Gwynplaine as a Child
    • (as Julius Molnar Jr.)
    Olga Baclanova
    Olga Baclanova
    • Duchess Josiana
    Brandon Hurst
    Brandon Hurst
    • Barkilphedro
    Cesare Gravina
    • Ursus
    Stuart Holmes
    Stuart Holmes
    • Lord Dirry-Moir
    Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse
    • King James II
    • (as Sam DeGrasse)
    George Siegmann
    George Siegmann
    • Dr. Hardquanonne
    Josephine Crowell
    Josephine Crowell
    • Queen Anne
    Károly Huszár
    Károly Huszár
    • Innkeeper
    • (as Charles Puffy)
    Zimbo the Dog
    • Homo the Wolf
    • (as Zimbo)
    Tom Amandares
    • Shouting Man at wheel on ship
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Henry A. Barrows
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Richard Bartlett
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Les Bates
    Les Bates
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Charles Brinley
    Charles Brinley
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Carmen Castillo
    • Dea's Mother
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Paul Leni
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Victor Hugo
      • J. Grubb Alexander
      • Walter Anthony
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    Recensioni degli utenti95

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    boris-26

    New York

    This silent horror gem doesn't get many viewings. Conrad Viedt, in his best film role plays an unfortunate memeber of royality whose mouth is carved in a horrific grin. He winds up in a circus sideshow, where gawkers marvel at his eternal grin. However, Viedt does such a wonderful performance here, especially with the fact he has the limitation of expressing inner anquish with eye movements. After the sideshow episode, he falls in love with a blind girl, (Mary Philbin, recently menaced by "The Phantom Of The Opera") who can't see his grostesque mouth. Paul Leni, who died of blood poisioning in 1931, keeps the pace of the film active. The late Bob Kane, creator of "Batman" claims Viedt's character was the inspiration for The Joker.
    flip-23

    Wow

    I saw this last night at the New Orleans Film Fest and was blown away. The film has been restored and was shown with a live octet to boot. The story was complex yet easy to understand and the acting was great. I was amazed at some of the camera work and film editing for such an early period in film history. It is too bad Leni died so young because he was headed for greatness.
    8wes-connors

    The Joker Is Wild

    In jolly old England, Julius Molnar Jr. (as young Gwynplaine) has a permanent grin surgically carved on his face "so he might laugh forever at his fool of a father" who refused to kiss the hand of his King. The disfigured lad rescues a blind baby, and they are adopted by fatherly Cesare Gravina (as Ursus). The children grow into Conrad Veidt (as Gwynplaine) and Mary Philbin (as Dea). The trio support themselves as a traveling freak show, featuring Mr. Veidt's "The Laughing Man" grin, which has become ever more grotesque with age. Still blind, but movie-star-beautiful as an adult, Ms. Philbin falls for her good-natured rescuer; she thinks God took her eyes so that she could see the good in "Gwynplaine". Veidt cares for Philbin, but is distracted by the possible love of a sighted woman, the seductive Olga Baclanova (as Duchess Josiana).

    Paul Leni's "The Man Who Laughs" makes up for a story that goes to the dogs (quite literally!) by being too beautifully produced to dismiss. Additionally, Veidt's performance is electrifying. Especially representative of his work in this film is Veidt's "seduction" scene, with Ms. Baclanova; and, she is surely the film's "Best Supporting Actress". Everyone, from Philbin to extras and bit players, is very good. Interestingly, Veidt was eligible for an Academy Award, but was not nominated. Then, neither was Lon Chaney, for "Laugh, Clown, Laugh". They had no sense of humor, obviously.

    ******** The Man Who Laughs (4/27/28) Paul Leni ~ Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Brandon Hurst
    rmartyna

    Watch it twice in a row to take it all in!

    This was our first Conrad Veidt experience. The Man Who Laughs is a spellbinding piece of visual art. Veidt's acting is sensational. I knew the plot of the story and wondered how he would portray feelings of sadness and regret with a permanent smile carved on his face. After viewing the tape, we were amazed how the emotions exuded from the TV screen. This is our second Mary Philbin experience and both of us prefer her acting in this movie to her role in The Phantom of the Opera.

    We have viewed silents on the TV screen as well as the big screen. We discovered that there is more of the "larger than life" emotions projected and felt by the audience through the larger screenings that is somewhat missed on the 27" TV screen. Not so with this performance. My wife and I were both moved to watch it from the beginning...one more time.
    8gftbiloxi

    Grotesque, Macabre, and Influential Silent Classic

    Like most artistic "isms," expressionism is somewhat difficult to define; in general, however, it refers to a style in which the artist is much less interested in capturing external realities than in portraying emotional and psychological states; consequently, expressionism is often fantastic in a visual sense--and when it combined with the darker edges of Germanic folklore it gave rise to a series of classic and near-classic silent films, including THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, THE GOLEM, and WAXWORKS.

    Over time, the style began to creep into American film. This was most particularly true of films made at Universal Studios, which had major successes with such Gothic-inflected films as THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, both of which starred Lon Chaney. Drawn from a minor work by Victor Hugo, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS was first intended as a Chaney vehicle; by the time it began production, however, Chaney had decamped to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer--and Universal assigned Conrad Veidt to the starring role under director Paul Leni. Both men had been deeply involved in the German expressionist movement, and the resulting film was a melodrama so deeply steeped in the grotesque that it came to be regarded as a horror film.

    THE MAN WHO LAUGHS concerns a child named Gwynplaine who is caught up in royal intrigue and is deliberately disfigured, his mouth cut into a ghastly, inflexible grin. Abandoned, he rescues an blind infant girl; both are taken in by the kindly Ursus (Cesare Gravina.) Years later, and entirely unaware of his aristocratic origin, Gwynplaine (Veidt) and the beautiful blind maiden Dea (Mary Philbin) are popular carnival actors, appearing in a play written by Ursus--but although he loves Dea, Gwynplaine is deeply humiliated by his eternal grin and feels he can never marry. Ironically, it is not until he is once more caught up in a royal powerplay and recognized as a peer that he realizes the depth of Dea's love.

    In some ways the plot is simplistic and occasionally too much so, but the look of the thing is relentlessly fascinating. Director Leni endows his world with grotesque faces, vulgar sexuality, and deliberately twisted visuals--particularly so in the first half of the film, which is greatly famous for the sequence in which the abandoned child stumbles through a snow storm beneath gallows bearing rotting corpses to find the infant Dea. Veidt's hideous grin, an early creation by make up genius Jack Pierce, is remarkably effective; the performances are memorable, and although the second half of the film is excessively predictable the whole thing goes off with a bang.

    Although it was hardly a failure, in 1928 THE MAN WHO LAUGHS proved too gruesome for many audiences, and the rise of sound films drove it into a too-rapid obscurity. Even so, it would cast a very long shadow: it is an important link in the chain between German expressionism and the great Hollywood horror classics of the early 1930s. The Kino DVD presents a reasonable but far from flawless transfer of the film, along with several bonus features, most significantly a "making of" documentary that details the film's stylistic importance. Recommended for fans of classic horror.

    GFT, Amazon Reviewer

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      Gwynplaine's fixed grin and disturbing clown-like appearance was a key inspiration for comic book writer Bill Finger and artists Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson in creating one of the most iconic comic book villains ever, The Joker, archenemy of Batman from DC Comics.
    • Blooper
      The opening scene happens in James II's reign (1685-1688), but Lord Clancharlie is sentenced to death in an Iron Maiden. This instrument of torture was invented in 1793 for display in museums.
    • Citazioni

      Gwynplaine: [Via subtitles, to the House of Lords] A king made me a clown! A queen made me a Peer! But first, God made me a man!

    • Connessioni
      Edited into Phobos (2019)
    • Colonne sonore
      When Love Comes Stealing
      (uncredited)

      Written by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee

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    • Data di uscita
      • 1 febbraio 1929 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • El hombre que ríe
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Universal Pictures
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      1 ora 50 minuti
    • Mix di suoni
      • Silent
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.20 : 1

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