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17+ The Man Who Laughs Background
07/08/2020 00:00
17+ The Man Who Laughs Background. Librivox recording of the man who laughs, by victor hugo. A documentary featured on the kino dvd edition about the making of the 1928 silent classic, the man who laughs.
The film is an adaptation of victor hugo's 1869 novel of the same. The man who laughs is a melodrama, at times even a swashbuckler, but so steeped in expressionist gloom that it plays like a horror film. Hugo's working title for this book was on the king's command.
The man who laughs is a 1928 american silent romantic drama film directed by the german expressionist filmmaker paul leni.
The man who laughs is a melodrama, at times even a swashbuckler, but so steeped in expressionist gloom that it plays like a horror film. ***start of the project gutenberg ebook the man who laughs***. The man who laughs is a 1928 american silent film directed by the german expressionist filmmaker paul leni. While the man who laughs contains powerful elements of tragedy, doomed romance, and even swashbuckling swordplay, its influence on horror cinema is most pronounced.