The Man Who Laughs (1928 film)

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The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs - 1928 theatrical poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPaul Leni
Screenplay byJ. Grubb Alexander
Walter Anthony
Mary McLean
Charles E. Whittaker
Based onThe Man Who Laughs
by Victor Hugo
Produced byCarl Laemmle
StarringMary Philbin
Conrad Veidt
Brandon Hurst
Cesare Gravina
Stuart Holmes
Samuel de Grasse
George Siegmann
Josephine Crowell
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Edited byEdward L. Cahn
Maurice Pivar
Music byJeff Rapsis
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • October 5, 1928 (1928-10-05) (NYC Premiere)
  • October 5, 1928 (1928-10-05)
Running time
110 minutes (10 reels)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American romantic melodrama silent film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1869 novel of the same name and stars Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine and Mary Philbin as Dea. The Man Who Laughs is a Gothic historical romance in the vein of earlier Universal prestige productions The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera, but is best remembered for Gwynplaine's grotesque rictus grin, which has led to its reputation as an early Hollywood horror film.

The film was released during a time of great upheaval in cinema, with the success of 1927's The Jazz Singer, which used sound-on-disc system Vitaphone to include popular songs and incidental dialogue, in addition to an orchestral score, signaling the beginning of the film industry's shift to sound films. In an effort to capitalize on the new demand for "talkies," Universal delayed the film's release until the following year, using the Movietone sound-on-film system to add a synchronized score with sound effects and the song "When Love Comes Stealing," by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack, and Ernö Rapée.

Plot[]

In late 17th-century England, court jester Barkilphedro informs King James II of the capture of Lord Clancharlie, an exiled nobleman. Having returned for his young son, Gwynplaine, the King tells Lord Clancharlie that a grin was carved upon the boy's face by Hardquanonne, a Comprachico surgeon. Lord Clancharlie is executed in an iron maiden.

Shortly afterward, the King issues a decree banishing all Comprachicos from England. A group of Comprachicos prepares to set sail from England, abandoning young Gwynplaine. The boy struggles through a snowstorm and rescues a baby girl whose mother had frozen to death. They are taken in by Ursus, a kindly philosopher-showman, and his pet wolf, Homo. Ursus realizes that the baby girl, named Dea, is blind.

Years later, Gwynplaine and Dea, now adults and in love, travel the countryside with Ursus, performing plays he has written for them. Gwynplaine's frozen smile has earned him widespread popularity as "The Laughing Man," but he is deeply ashamed of his disfigurement, believing himself unworthy of Dea's affections. Hardquanonne recognizes Gwynplaine at the Southwark Fair and sends a letter to the Duchess Josiana, which is intercepted by Barkilphedro, now an influential agent of the court. The letter claims knowledge of a living heir to the estates of Lord Clancharlie – currently being occupied by the Duchess – and suggests that she pay Hardquanonne for his silence. Barkilphedro shows the letter to Queen Anne, and his men take Hardquanonne to Chatham Prison to be tortured. The Queen sends the Duchess's fiancé, Lord Dirry-Moir, to retrieve her after she shirks her duties at the royal court. Dirry-Moir finds the Duchess shamelessly cavorting with the local men at the Southwark Fair. A brawl breaks out, and she leaves for Kensington Palace.

From a balcony, the Duchess watches Gwynplaine's act at the fair, and finds herself both sexually aroused and repelled by his disfigurement. A messenger gives him a note arranging a rendezvous at midnight, and while conflicted over his feelings for Dea, he sneaks out of the caravan that night. His departure is heard by a worried and heartbroken Dea, who finds the letter. Gwynplaine is ushered inside the Duchess's estate, where she attempts to seduce him, but is interrupted by the delivery of a pronouncement informing her of Gwynplaine's noble lineage and the Queen's decree that she marry Gwynplaine, thereby legitimizing her occupation of the late Lord Clancharlie's estates, with her engagement to Dirry-Moir already having been annulled. The Duchess begins to laugh, causing Gwynplaine to rush away, devastated at again being made into a mockery.

Gwynplaine returns home and extracts the Duchess's letter clutched in Dea's hands as she sleeps. He tears the note into pieces before breaking down into tears, overcome by guilt. Dea wakes up, relieved to find he has returned. He guides her hands to feel his smile for the first time, and she reassures him that God made her sightless so she could see only the real Gwynplaine. Guards arrive to arrest Gwynplaine, and he is taken to Chatham Prison. When the guards later march out of the prison bearing Hardquanonne's coffin, Ursus mistakenly concludes that Gwynplaine has been executed. Barkilphedro arrives to notify Ursus he has been banished from England, and cruelly lies to him that the "laughing mountebank" is dead. Hearing this from the stage, Dea faints in shock.

Gwynplaine is freed from prison and is to be made a Peer in the House of Lords. The next day, he is brought to London for his introduction ceremony by Barkilphedro at the same time as Ursus and Dea head for the Thames docks to leave the country. Their vehicle carriage wheels lock and Ursus's pet wolf, Homo, leads Dea to the House of Lords. The Peers are outraged that a clown has joined their ranks. Gwynplaine is presented to Queen Anne, who decrees Gwynplaine will marry the Duchess. Dirry-Moir brings Dea inside the building, but she is tricked into going back outside by Barkilphedro and brought to Ursus. Upset over the Peers's mockery, Gwynplaine renounces his peerage and refuses to marry the Duchess. He escapes from the guards and runs through the streets, only to find his show closed. Gwynplaine heads to the docks when he learns that Dea and Ursus were ordered to leave England, managing to elude Barkilphedro's men with the help of the villagers. When he reaches the docks, Gwynplaine's cries are heard by Homo, who leaps off the ship and swims to him. The wolf-dog mauls a guard about to attack Gwynplaine. They are pulled aboard and Gwynplaine reunites with Ursus and Dea. Together, they set sail from England.

Cast[]

Many significant silent-era actors appeared in minor or uncredited roles, including D'Arcy Corrigan,[1] Torben Meyer, Edgar Norton, Nick De Ruiz, Frank Puglia, and Charles Puffy.[2] Zimbo, a German Shepherd, played Ursus's pet wolf, Homo (whose name is a pun on the Latin saying "Homo homini lupus").

Production[]

Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine, an inspiration for the Joker, the 1940 comic book nemesis of Batman

Following the success of Universal Pictures's 1923 adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the company was eager to release another film starring Lon Chaney. A treatment adapting The Phantom of the Opera was prepared, but rejected by the Universal executives. In its place, Chaney was offered the lead in a film version of Hugo's The Man Who Laughs, to be produced under its French title (L'Homme Qui Rit) out of perceived similarity to Les Misérables.[3] The Man Who Laughs, published in 1869, had been subject to significant criticism in both England and France, and was one of Hugo's least successful novels,[4] but it had been filmed twice before. 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.[5]

Despite Chaney's contract, production did not begin. Universal had failed to acquire film rights to the Hugo novel from the French studio . Chaney's contract was amended, releasing him from The Man Who Laughs, but permitting him to name the replacement film, ultimately resulting in the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera.[6] After the success of Phantom, studio chief Carl Laemmle returned to The Man Who Laughs for Universal's next Gothic film "super-production".[7][8] Laemmle selected two fellow expatriate Germans for the project. Director Paul Leni had been hired by Universal following his internationally acclaimed Waxworks,[9] and had already proven himself to the company with The Cat and the Canary.[10] Countryman Conrad Veidt was cast in the Gwynplaine role that was previously intended for Chaney. Veidt had worked with Leni for Waxworks and several other German films, and was well known for his role as Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.[11][12] American actress Mary Philbin, who had played Christine Daaé opposite Chaney in Phantom, was cast as Dea.[13]

Leni was provided with a skilled crew. Charles D. Hall was chosen to design the sets. He had previously adapted Ben Carré's stage sets to film for Phantom and had worked with Leni for The Cat and the Canary.[12] Jack Pierce became the head makeup artist at Universal in 1926, and was responsible for crafting Gwynplaine's appearance.[12]

During the sequence where Gwynplaine is presented to the House of Lords, the extras were so moved by Veidt's performance that they burst into applause.[14]

Universal put over $1,000,000 into The Man Who Laughs, an extremely high budget for an American film of the time.[15]

Style[]

Music and sound[]

The Man Who Laughs was originally released as a silent film with dialogue rendered through intertitles, and projected with musical accompaniment which would by vary by venue. The phenomenal success of 1927's The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful sound film, heralded the demise of the silent era. By May the next year, virtually every Hollywood studio was licensed by Western Electric's newly created marketing subsidiary, Electrical Research Products, Incorporated, to use Western Electric equipment with the Movietone sound-on-film recording system. Technologically superior to the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system used by The Jazz Singer, Movietone enabled image and sound to be recorded simultaneously in the same (photographic) medium, ensuring their precise and automatic synchronization.[16]

Universal used Movietone to provide The Man Who Laughs a monophonic score with occasional synchronized sounds including bells, knocks, and trumpets, and even the murmuring hubbub of crowds. The score was built around the song "When Love Comes Stealing," an instrumental piece composed by Ernö Rapée, with lyrics added by Walter Hirsch and Lew Pollack.[17] Recorded by James Melton and Herman D. Kenin's orchestra, "When Love Comes Stealing" failed to achieve nationwide success.

Release[]

Theatrical release[]

The Man Who Laughs opened on April 27, 1928, at New York's Central Theatre. Proceeds from the opening night were donated to the non-profit organization American Friends of Blérancourt. The film was released in the United States on November 4, 1928.

The Man Who Laughs received two releases in the United Kingdom. The film originally released in London on May 16, 1928, completely silent, with a score provided by each theater's in-house pianist. Universal later used the Movietone sound-on-film process to give the film a synchronized musical score, which released in London on November 30, 1928.

Home media[]

For many years, the film was not publicly available. In the 1960s, The Man Who Laughs was among the films preserved by the Library of Congress following a donation from the American Film Institute; along with 22 other such films, it was shown at the New York Film Festival in 1969.[18] It was again screened by Peter Bogdanovich at the Telluride Film Festival in 1998,[19] but remained largely unavailable until Kino International and the Cineteca di Bologna produced a restored version of the film made from two American prints and an Italian print.[20][21] This restoration was released on DVD by Kino on September 30, 2003.[21] Slant Magazine gave this DVD 3.5 out of 5 stars, citing the overall quality of the restoration and the uniqueness of the included extras, including a home movie of Veidt.[20] Kino included this DVD in their five-volume American Silent Horror Collection box set on October 9, 2007.[22] Sunrise Silents also produced a DVD of the film, edited to a slightly longer runtime than the Kino restoration, released in October 2004.[21]

The Man Who Laughs was released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 4, 2019, sourced from a new 4K restoration, and features a new score performed by The Berklee College of Music as well as an option to view the film with the 1928 Movietone score[23]

Critical reception[]

Contemporary[]

Initially, the critical assessment of The Man Who Laughs was mediocre, with some critics disliking the morbidity of the subject matter and others complaining that the Germanic looking sets did not evoke 17th-century England.[8]

Paul Rotha was particularly critical. In his 1930 history of film, The Film Till Now, he called The Man Who Laughs a "travesty of cinematic methods,"[24] and declared that in directing it, Leni "became slack, drivelling, slovenly, and lost all sense of decoration, cinema, and artistry."[25] The New York Times gave the film a slightly positive review, calling it "gruesome but interesting, and one of the few samples of pictorial work in which there is no handsome leading man."[26]

Modern[]

The Man Who Laughs has received critical acclaim from modern critics as an influential German Expressionist horror film made during the height of the silent era. Roger Ebert placed The Man Who Laughs on his Great Movies list, giving it four out of four stars and declaring the film to be "one of the final treasures of German silent Expressionism," commending Leni's "mastery of visual style."[27] Kevin Thomas from the Los Angeles Times gave the film a glowing review, describing it as "precisely the kind of all-stops-out romantic adventure that needs the silent rather than sound medium for maximum impact," and calling Leni "its perfect director, for his bravura Expressionist style lifts this tempestuous tale above the level of tear-jerker to genuinely stirring experience."[28] Slant Magazine's Eric Henderson gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, writing that The Man Who Laughs took Universal's series of Gothic horror films to "new and unparalleled heights in cinematic intelligence." Henderson noted the film's "obsessive dualism," citing its "fascination with bric-a-brac and its tendency towards spare, minimalist compositions" as "evidence of a stylistic schism."[29] Time Out's Bob Baker called the film "a riot of Expressionist detail in Leni's forceful handling" anchored by Veidt's "sensitive rendering" of Gwynplaine. Baker credits Leni's "pictorial genius" as marking the film as "one of the most exhilarating of late silent cinema."[30] Comparing the film to Leni's directorial effort from the previous year, The Cat and the Canary, the Chicago Reader's J. R. Jones found that The Man Who Laughs better demonstrates the director's "considerable dramatic and pictorial talents," with the love between Gwynplaine and Dea yielding "a sincere and extravagant sense of romance."[31] Writing for Little White Lies, Anton Bitel describes the film as never reaching the same horror as Leni's other features, Waxworks and The Cat and the Canary, despite its sometimes grisly subject matter, likening it to "a sentimental romance and a political satire, with just a smidgin of rooftop swashbuckling thrown in near the end." He praised Veidt's ability to portray a full emotional range without being able to move "one of the face's most expressive parts," and called the theatricality and transgression of social norms within the film "carnivalesque," embodied most completely by Gwynplaine, "a man who is his mask" [32]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a perfect 100% approval rate based on 20 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A meeting of brilliant creative minds, The Man Who Laughs serves as a stellar showcase for the talents of director Paul Leni and star Conrad Veidt."[33]

Legacy[]

The Man Who Laughs had considerable influence on the later Universal Classic Monsters films.[34] Pierce continued to provide the makeup for Universal's monsters; comparisons to Gwynplaine's grin was used to advertise The Raven.[35] Hall's set design for The Man Who Laughs helped him develop the blend of Gothic and expressionist features he employed for some of the most important Universal horror films of the 1930s: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man, The Black Cat, and Bride of Frankenstein.[36] Decades later, the themes and style of The Man Who Laughs were influences on Brian De Palma's 2006 The Black Dahlia, which incorporates some footage from the 1928 film.[37]

A green-haired man with a distended grin holds a joker playing card
The Joker's distinctive grin, seen here in art by Alex Ross, was inspired by Veidt's role as Gwynplaine.

The Joker, nemesis to DC Comics's Batman, owes his appearance to Veidt's portrayal of Gwynplaine in the film. Although Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson disagreed as their respective roles in the 1940 creation of the Joker, they agreed that his exaggerated smile was influenced by a photograph of Veidt from the film.[38] Heath Ledger's portrayal of the character in the 2008 film The Dark Knight (which was released 80 years later) makes this connection even more direct by depicting the Joker's smile as the result of disfiguring scarring rather than an expression of his insanity.[39] A 2005 graphic novel exploring the first encounter between Batman and the Joker was also titled Batman: The Man Who Laughs in homage to the 1928 film, as was the Batman Who Laughs, an alternate universe Batman who becomes more like Joker after managing to kill his enemy.[39]

Later adaptations[]

Although prominent actors, including Christopher Lee and Kirk Douglas, expressed interest in taking the role of Gwynplaine in a hypothetical remake,[5] there has been no American film adaptation of The Man Who Laughs in the sound era; however, there have been three adaptations by European directors. Italian director Sergio Corbucci's 1966 version, L'Uomo che ride (released in the United States as The Man Who Laughs, but in France as L'Imposture des Borgia)[40] substantially altered the plot and setting, placing the events in Italy and replacing the court of King James II with that of the House of Borgia.[5] Jean Kerchbron directed a three-part French television film adaptation, L'Homme qui rit, in 1971. Philippe Bouclet and Delphine Desyeux star as Gwynplaine and Dea; Philippe Clay appeared as Barkilphedro.[40] Jean-Pierre Améris directed another French-language version, also called L'Homme qui rit, which was released in 2012. It stars Marc-André Grondin and Christa Théret, with Gérard Depardieu as Ursus.[41]

Horror-film historian Wheeler Winston Dixon described the 1961 film Mr. Sardonicus, also featuring a character with a horrifying grin, as "The Man Who Laughs ... remade, after a fashion".[42] However, its director, William Castle, has stated the film is an adaptation of "Sardonicus", an unrelated short story by Ray Russell originally appearing in Playboy.[43]

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  1. ^ Long, Harry H.; et al. (John T. Soister; Henry Nicolella; Steve Joyce) (2012). "The Man Who Laughs". American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films. Research and archiving by Bill Chase. McFarland & Company. p. 313. ISBN 9780786435814.
  2. ^ Long, Harry H.; et al. (John T. Soister; Henry Nicolella; Steve Joyce) (2012). "The Man Who Laughs". American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913–1929. Research and archiving by Bill Chase. McFarland & Company. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-7864-3581-4.
  3. ^ Riley 1996, pp. 39–40.
  4. ^ Josephson 2005, p. 459.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Long 2012, p. 378. sfn error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFLong2012 (help)
  6. ^ Riley 1996, p. 40.
  7. ^ Solomon 2013, p. 27.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Newman, James (October 24, 2003). "The Man Who Laughs". Images. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  9. ^ Stephens 1998, p. 196.
  10. ^ DiLeo 2007, pp. 176–177.
  11. ^ DiLeo 2007, p. 176.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c Conrich 2004, p. 42.
  13. ^ Soister 2002, p. 206.
  14. ^ "Gossip of All the Studios". Photoplay. February 1928. Vol. XXXIII. No. 3. p. 88.
  15. ^ Daly, Phil M. (April 22, 1928). "And That's That". lantern.mediahist.org. The Film Daily. XLIV (19): 5. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
  16. ^ Cook, David A.; Sklar, Robert. "History of Film". Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  17. ^ Melnick 2012, p. 479.
  18. ^ Koszarski, Richard (1969–1970). "Lost Films from the National Film Collection". Film Quarterly. 23 (2): 31–37. doi:10.2307/1210519. JSTOR 1210519.
  19. ^ Ebert, Roger (January 18, 2004). "The Man Who Laughs". RogerEbert.com. Great Movies. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  20. ^ Jump up to: a b Henderson, Eric (September 29, 2003). "The Man Who Laughs". Slant Magazine. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  21. ^ Jump up to: a b c "The Man Who Laughs". Silent Era. Silent Era Films on Home Video. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  22. ^ "American Silent Horror Collection". Silent Era. Silent Era Films on Home Video. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  23. ^ Review. Blu-ray.com. June 20, 2019.
  24. ^ Rotha 1930, p. 204.
  25. ^ Rotha 1930, p. 31.
  26. ^ "The Screen; His Grim Grin". The New York Times. April 28, 1928. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  27. ^ Ebert, Roger (January 18, 2004). "The Man Who Laughs". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  28. ^ Thomas, Kevin (August 15, 1994). "Leni's 'Man Who Laughs' a Silent, Stirring Experience". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  29. ^ Henderson, Eric (September 29, 2003). "Review: The Man Who Laughs". Slant Magazine. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  30. ^ Baker, Bob (June 24, 2006). "The Man Who Laughs". Time Out. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  31. ^ Jones, J. R. (January 8, 2014). "The Man Who Laughs". Chicago Reader. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  32. ^ Bitel, Anton (August 17, 2020). "How The Man Who Laughs redefined early horror cinema". Little White Lies. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  33. ^ "The Man Who Laughs (1928)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
  34. ^ DiLeo 2007, p. 177.
  35. ^ Mank 2009, p. 256.
  36. ^ Stephens 1998, pp. 148–150, 196.
  37. ^ Uhlich, Keith (September 11, 2006). "The Black Dahlia". Slant Magazine. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
  38. ^ Rodriguez, Mario (2014). "Physiognomy and Freakery: The Joker on Film". Americana. 13 (2).
  39. ^ Jump up to: a b Serafino, Jay (August 3, 2016). "How a 1928 Silent Film Influenced the Creation of the Joker". Mental Floss. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  40. ^ Jump up to: a b Gleizes 2005, p. 244.
  41. ^ Young, Neil (September 12, 2012). "The Man Who Laughs (L'Homme Qui Rit): Venice Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  42. ^ Dixon, Wheeler W. (2010). A History of Horror. Rutgers University Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780813547954.
  43. ^ Castle 1992, p. 163.

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