Bruce Loeb at the piano
the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Saturday, March 25 2023
7:30 PM
THE LAST LAUGH
(1924)
starring Emil Jannings
directed by F. W. Munau
"the great performance of Emil Jannings gives a general human meaning to this story of an insignificant man. The Last Laugh is a remarkable achievement of film technique thanks to which it acquired a fullness of expression that epitomizes the maturity and narrative fluency characteristic of the hightly developed silent cinema at the threshold of sound."