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DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 9, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 10 minutes
Country USA
Studio Samuel Goldwyn Company
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Other Titles
• The Penalty
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Genre: Thriller, Suspense, Revenge, Psychos, Gangsters, Melodrama, Society, Doctor
Plot: Lon Chaney turns in an amazing performance in this silent horror film, for which he had to wear an extremely painful harness that kept his legs strapped behind his back. Chaney stars as Blizzard, a double amputee who is out to get revenge on the incompetent doctor who performed the needless amputation on him when he was a child. Now the head of San Francisco's crime syndicate, Blizzard begins his revenge scheme by insinuating himself into the life of the doctor's daughter by serving as her model for a portrait of Satan. Soon, Blizzard's plan encompasses not only humiliating the doctor and his daughter, but also, as he descends into madness, conspiring with the communists on an invasion of the Bay Area. Absurd, frightening, melodramatic, and highly entertaining, THE PENALTY is a high point of 1920s horror.
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Charles Kenyon
The Petrified Forest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Iron Horse | |
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| Cast |
Lon Chaney
The Phantom of the Opera, The Unknown, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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