Raised by his grandfather to adhere to the ancient laws of China, Mandarin Wu is a strict authoritarian. Read More »
Tag Archives: Lon Chaney
While the City Sleeps (1928) Jack Conway, Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always Read More »
Flesh and Blood (1922) Irving Cummings, Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down Read More »
The Unknown (1927) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and gun shooter for a circus—or so he appears. Read More »
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Herbert Brenon, Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young
As professional clowns Tito and Simon are traveling, they happen upon an abandoned child Read More »
The Wicked Darling (1919) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney
Pickpockets ‘Stoop’ Connors and Mary Stevens often work together Read More »
West of Zanzibar (1928) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan
Magician Phroso’s wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Read More »
The Monster (1925) Roland West, Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley
Milquetoast small-town store clerk Johnny Goodlittle is smitten with his boss’s pretty daughter Read More »
The Blackbird (1926) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl Read More »
Outside the Law (1920) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing Read More »
Tell It to the Marines (1926) George W. Hill, Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. Read More »
Where East Is East (1929) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Drama, Romance
‘Tiger’ Haynes is a respected trapper of jungle beasts for zoos and circuses and a doting father to his beautiful young daughter Toyo. Read More »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) Wallace Worsley, Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Drama, Romance
Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. Read More »
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Horror
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as the “Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Read More »
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Victor Sjöström, Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.
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