"A king made me a clown! A queen made me a Peer! But first, God made me a man!"
Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), is an aristocrat's son who is kidnapped to punish his father. Rescued by the leader of a traveling fair, they find his face has been disfigured; paralysed into a hideous smile. He grows up with the actors and falls in love with the blind Dea (Mary Philbin). But when the king dies, Gwynplaine is again at the mercy of court politics.
A classic silent horror, but one that you need to follow carefully.
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