The Man Who Laughs(L'uomo che ride)
✭ ✭
Italy, France · 1966
1h 28m
Director Sergio Corbucci
Starring Jean Sorel, Lisa Gastoni, Ilaria Occhini, Edmund Purdom
Genre Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
A 1966 French-Italian film version made in Italy, titled L'uomo che ride, directed by Sergio Corbucci. This version features elaborate colour photography but a very low production budget. The main action is shifted to Italy and moved yesterwards in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. In this version, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (played by Jean Sorel). His disfigurement is represented as a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (which is attributed, in the movie credits, to the director, producer and others involved in making the film, but not to Victor Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias. At the end, Dea (actress Lina Sini) miraculously acquires her eyesight and Angelo undergoes surgery that completely reverses his disfigurement and renders him perfectly handsome.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Vanishing
(배니싱: 미제사건)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2022
- Director Denis Dercourt
- Cast Yoo Yeon-seok, Olga Kurylenko, Ye Ji-won, Choi Moo-sung, Lee Seung-joon, Sung Ji-ru
- Genre Thriller, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Hashira Meeting Arc
(鬼滅の刃 柱合会議・蝶屋敷編)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2020
- Director Haruo Sotozaki
- Cast Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito, Hiro Shimono, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Reina Ueda, Yuri Ehara
- Genre Animation, Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Indemnity
(Sin Culpa)
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't remember committing.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- South Africa • 2022
- Director Travis Taute
- Cast Jarrid Geduld, Gail Mabalane, André Jacobs, Nicole Fortuin, Louw Venter
- Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Redbox, Hoopla
What a Father!
(¡Qué despadre!)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 2022
- Director Pedro Pablo Ibarra
- Cast Mauricio Ochmann, Fiona Palomo, Sandra Echeverría, Ana Claudia Talancón, Héctor Suárez
- Genre Comedy, Family, Romance
- Available on fuboTV, VIX
Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow
(Inspector Sun y la maldición de la viuda negra)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 2022
- Director Julio Soto Gurpide
- Cast Fernando Cabrera, Andrea Villaverde, Catherina Martínez, Ana Jiménez, Txema Moscoso, Vicente Gil
- Genre Animation, Family
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe
As Marthe becomes the muse of renowned painter Pierre Bonnard, their love and his art become intertwined.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium • 2023
- Director Martin Provost
- Cast Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Anouk Grinberg, Stacy Martin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, André Marcon
- Genre History, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.