Conrad Veidt as a man whose face was carved into a permanent grin in childhood, condemned to be laughed at for the one expression he cannot escape. Paul Leni directs it as tragedy rather than horror, and Veidt does an e…
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Conrad Veidt as a man whose face was carved into a permanent grin in childhood, condemned to be laughed at for the one expression he cannot escape. Paul Leni directs it as tragedy rather than horror, and Veidt does an e…
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