The synchronized soundtrack version, featuring music and effects, of Paul Leni's masterful adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1869 novel "The Man Who Laughs" starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. The film reportedly inspired the popular comic book villain The Joker. Disfigured by a king as a child, an 18th-century clown again becomes the pawn of royalty and star of the freak show of a travelling carnival.
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