The Man Who Laughs

This is more in line with how Carl Laemmle Jr. was trying to move the direction of his father’s studio than The Cat and the Canary. A huge production based on a respected novel filled with grotesqueries making it a large spectacle for the masses that would shock them, The Man Who Laughs was made a few years after the large success that was The Hunchback of Notre Dame and a few years before Lammle Jr. took the studio into the sound era with things like Dracula, Frankenstein, and All Quiet on ...