TY - BOOK AU - F.W. Murnau AU - F.W. Murnau AU - Carl Mayer AU - Emil Jannings AU - Maly Delschaft AU - Max Hiller TI - Der Letzte Mann: The Last Laugh AV - PN1997 .L489 1924 PY - 1924/// CY - Germany PB - Universum Film (UFA) N1 - Disc 1: Restored German version of the film with the original 1924 score by Giuseppe Becce. Disc 2: Unrestored export version of the film with the 1993 score by Timothy Brock N2 - From case cover: One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which has for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. Through Jannings's colossal performance, The Last Laugh becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class ER -