Astonishingly fluid and deeply influential, The Last Laugh is a unique fusion of expressionist and chamber theater elements. Director F. W. Murnau eschews intertitles, instead using the interplay between stark vertical lines and curved openings to draw out the psychological resonances of interior and exterior space. The approach is reinforced by cinematographer Karl Freund's "unchained camera" and the intense physicality of Emil Jannings. With the original score of Giuseppe Becce and English subtitles.