 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Wallace Worsley
Cast: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Kate Lester, Nigel De Brulier, Brandon Hurst, Raymond Hatton, Winifred Bryson, Harry von Meter, Nick De Ruiz, Roy Laidlaw, Ray Myers, Eulalie Jensen
Lon Chaney achieved stardom in this film as Notre Dame Cathedral bell ringer Quasimodo. Hunchbacked and friendless, he is crowned King of the Fools at a festival where gypsy Esmeralda (Patsy Ruth Miller) is entertaining the crowd as a diversion while her adopted father Clopin (Ernest Torrence) plots to overthrow the aristocracy. Notre Dame archdeacon Dom Claude (Nigel De Brulier) orders Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda, but the kidnapping plot fails, and Quasimodo is flogged. Esmeralda brings Quasimodo water, and later, when she is falsely accused of murder, Quasimodo rescues her and takes her to safety in the church. He falls in love with Esmeralda, but their union is not to be, and when he sees Esmeralda with her true love Phoebus (Norman Kerry), Quasimodo takes his own life.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh 1928  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Herbert Brenon
Cast: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald, Nils Asther, Gwen Lee
Circus clown Tito Beppi (Lon Chaney) adopted and raised a young girl, Simonetta (Loretta Young), who has matured into a beautiful woman, and Tito's feelings toward her have changed from fatherly to amorous. Simonetta learns of his feelings, pities him, and declares her love for him. Matters come to a head when Simonetta falls in love with Count Luigi Ravelli (Nils Asther), and Tito performs a suicidal circus stunt leaving Simonetta free to marry the Count.
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Nomads of the North 1920  N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Hartford
Cast: Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Melbourne MacDowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, Betty Blythe, Francis McDonald, Gordon Mullen, Charles Smiley
While in the North Country, Raoul (Lon Chaney) falls in love with Nanette (Betty Blythe). After the bad Buck (Francis MacDonald) tells Nanette that Raoul is dead, Buck wins her heart, and they agree to wed. But when Raoul returns and Buck is found out, Raoul and Nanette flee after Raoul kills one of Buck's henchmen. Now both the Mounties and Buck are after the couple.
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Oliver Twist 1922 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Gladys Brockwell, Lon Chaney, Lionel Belmore, Esther Ralston, George Siegmann, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Nelson McDowell, Lewis Sargent, Joan Standing, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Taylor Graves, Florence Hale
This is a good rendition of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Performed as a silent movie, it stars Jackie Coogan in the title role of the young pickpocket Oliver Twist and Lon Chaney as his tutor, the devious Fagin.
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The Penalty 1920 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Wallace Worsley
Cast: Lon Chaney, Ethel Grey Terry, Charles Clary, Claire Adams, Kenneth Harlan, Jim Mason, Edouard Trebaol, Milton Ross, Clarence Wilson, Lee Phelps
Blizzard (Lon Chaney) is a legless, underworld crime boss in San Francisco who is out to get revenge on the incompetent doctor who had unnecessarily amputated his legs when Blizzard was a child. But, after having an operation to remove a blood clot in his brain, Blizzard puts aside his evil ways–and some people are not happy about the change. A good Chaney silent film.
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 The Phantom of the Opera 1925  N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: Rupert Julian
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland, John Miljan, Chester Conklin, Arthur Edmund Carewe, John St. Polis, Alexander Bevani, Edward Cecil, Edith Yorke, William Tracy, Roy Coulson, Ward Crane
This is a very good, silent horror film with Lon Chaney at his best in the role of Erik, the Phantom, who lives in the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House and comes up to coach beautiful singer Christine (Mary Philbin). Through a series of terrors, including causing an enormous chandelier to crash on the audience, the Phantom forces the lead soprano to resign from the opera. Then, he lures Christine into his lair beneath the opera house and tells her that he loves her but that he will only let her go if she will break off her relationship with Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry). Christine agrees but then rushes to Raoul, and they plan to run away after the performance. The Phantom overhears her and kidnaps Christine asking only that she never remove his mask, but she sneaks up behind him, rips off the mask, and reveals the terror of what lies beneath. Now, it is the job of Raoul and secret service agent Simon Buquet (Gibson Gowland) to rescue Christine.
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 Shadows 1922 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Forman
Cast: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison(2) Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long, Buddy Messinger, Priscilla Bonner, Frances Raymond
Lon Chaney's excellent performance is the highlight of this tale of a Chinese laundryman, Yen Sin (Chaney), who is washed ashore at an East Coast fishing village during a storm. But, the God-fearing inhabitants of the village demonstrate prejudice against Yen, who runs a laundry from a houseboat. Eventually he befriends and is befriended by young minister John (Harrison Ford) who marries a widow, Sympathy (Marguerite De La Motte). But, blackmail ruins John, and Yen comes to the rescue by uncovering the truth, after which Yen returns to the sea in his boat.
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The Shock 1923 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh, Henry A. Barrows, Christine Mayo, Harry De Vere, John(2) Beck, Walter Long, Bob Kortman, Togo Yamamoto
Wilse (Lon Chaney), a crippled man, is also a member of a gang of blackmailers. When he falls in love with the daughter, Gertrude (Virginia Valli), of his most recent victim, Wilse decides to go straight–and he may succeed after an earthquake destroys the evidence of his criminal activities.
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Treasure Island 1920 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Lon Chaney, Shirley Mason, Charles Hill Mailes, Sydney Deane, Harry Holden, Charles Ogle, Al W. Filson, Josie Melville, Wilton Taylor, Joseph Singleton, Bull Montana
In this early adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic story, Long John Silver (Charles Ogle) is searching for the treasure, and young Jim Hawkins (Shirley Mason) has possession of the treasure map. Now, Long John Silver and his pirates try to get the map.
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The Unknown 1927 N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George, Frank Lanning, John St. Polis, Julian Rivero, Louise Emmons
Alonzo the Armless (Lon Chaney)–but he really does have arms– is a knife thrower in a circus who uses his feet to accomplish his feats. He falls in love with his assistant Nanon Zanzi (Joan Crawford) who has a morbid fear of being touched by men's arms. To gain her love, Alonzo decides to have his own arms amputated. The deed is done, but in the interim the object of his love gets over her phobia and falls in love with another man. Now, Alonzo schemes to get her back.
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Victory 1919 N/R, 55 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley, Laura Winston, Bull Montana, George Nichols
A drifter, Axel Heyst (Jack Holt), settles in the South Seas where he takes a job mining coal on a remote island. He rescues Alma (Seena Owen) who is being held hostage by hotel owner Schomberg (Wallace Beery). Together, they hitch a ride to his island. An evil trio is sent by Schomberg to recover Alma, and Axel must stand up to the thugs.
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The Wicked Darling 1919   N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken, Gertrude Astor, Kalla Pasha
Petty thief Mary (Priscilla Dean) steals a pearl necklace that was dropped by Adele (Gertrude Astor) who was fleeing from a high society event when she found out that her fiance, Kent (Wellington Playter), was broke (He had spent all of his money on her.). On the lam, she hides in a house that just happens to be Kent's. She falls in love with him and tries to go straight. But Mary's hoodlum boyfriend (Lon Chaney) doesn't like that at all. 1 User Review
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| 1. The Ace of Hearts (1921)
2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
3. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
4. London After Midnight (1927)
5. Nomads of the North (1920)
6. Oliver Twist (1922)
7. The Penalty (1920)
8. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
9. Shadows (1922)
10. The Shock (1923)
11. Treasure Island (1920)
12. The Unknown (1927)
13. Victory (1919)
14. The Wicked Darling (1919)
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