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Released
1928 · FILM

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

What did he hide behind his painted smile?

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
74 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Marie HalveyShot by James Wong HoweScored by H Scott Salinas

Box Office

1928 · Box office

Produced on a $293K budget

Production budget

$293K

Also known as

  • Lach, Clown, lachde
  • Ris donc, Paillasse !fr
  • Ridi pagliaccio!it

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