The Hands of Orlac is a 1924 Austrian horror silent film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. It is based on the novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard.
Título original : Orlacs Hände (1924) 1 h 32 min
The Hands of Orlac
Direção : Robert Wiene
Artistas : Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer. IMDb
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Synopsis :
Released with sound effects and a music score that
included the song "When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew
Pollack and Erno Rapee, Paul Leni's near masterpiece remains one of the
silent era's last great romantic melodramas. Based on Victor Hugo's 1869
novel L'Homme qui Rit, The Man Who Laughs starred German import Conrad
Veidt as Gwynplaine, a carnival freak doomed to live life wearing a
perpetual grin carved on his face by Dr Hardquannone (George Siegman
because his father, Lord Clancharlie (Allan Cavan), had offended
England's King James II (Sam De Grasse). Taken in as a child by Ursus, a
mountebank (Cesare Gravina), Gwynplaine grows up alongside the
beautiful but blind Dea (Mary Philbin). They fall in love but Gwynplaine
refuses to marry her because his hideous face makes him feel unworthy.
Queen Anne (Josephine Crowell), meanwhile, has ascended the throne and
when she learns from her predecessor's evil jester Barkilphedro (Brandon
Hurst) that the recalcitrant Duchess Josiana (Olga Baclanova) is in
possession of Lord Clancharlie's estates, she decrees that the royal
femme fatale must marry Gwynplaine, the rightful heir. Josiana, who has
caught Gwynplaine's act incognito and arranged a rendezvous, is at the
same time sexually attracted to and repelled by the "Laughing Man," but
Gwynplaine, who realizes that the duchess' attraction has legitimized
his right to love Dea, renounces his title and follows his heart to the
new World. Although Kirk Douglas was long interested in producing a
remake, The Man Who Laughs was instead filmed again as L'Uomo che Ride
by Italian director Sergio Corbucci in 1966. Corbucci, however, changed
the setting from Queen Anne to the infamous sixteenth century Italian
court of the Borgias. Hans J. Wollstein
Title : The Man Who Laughs (1927)
Directed : Directed by Paul Leni
Duration : 110 min.
Subtitles : Spanish, Portuguese
Card in English
Genres : Drama, Horror, Romance, Mystery
Countries : United States
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