Ben-207
Joined Sep 1999
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This film apparently contained the first ever double exposure, one of G.A. Smith's many inventions. George Albert Smith is sometimes called 'the English Melies', but given the fact that Melies would watch Smith's films and then steal their ideas, perhaps Melies should be called 'the French G.A. Smith'.
The last laugh (as it is known in the English speaking world) stands alongside "Birth of a nation", "Battleship Potemkin" and "Citizen Kane" as one of the most innovative and influential movies of all time. One viewing of this film, and no sane person could deny that Murnau is the king of German cinema, and perhaps the greatest of them all!
This picture marks the peak, probably, of Britain's free cinema movement (the equivalent of the French new wave, only much better). What film made since is richer, more dynamic, more expressive or more stunning than "if..."???? None, I say!