The Penalty

NR 1920 | 90 mins | Thriller
In a role that established him as one of the most dynamically terrifying performers of the silent screen, Lon Chaney stars in THE PENALTY, from director Wallace Worsley. When an incompetent doctor amputates the legs of a young boy, he has no idea that the youth will grow up to be the immoral and embittered Blizzard, a criminal mastermind who orchestrates a bizarre and heinous plot to avenge himself upon his malefactor. The Penalty teems with irony and sexual menace as Blizzard befriends the surgeon's daughter and serves as an artist's model for her sculptural rendition of Satan, waiting for his moment to show the depth of his demonic desires.

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Cast


Lon Chaney
 
Claire Adams
 
Kenneth Harlan
 
Charles Clary
 
Ethel Grey Terry
 
Edouard Trebaol
 
Milton Ross
 
James Mason
Frisco Pete
James Mason
 
Clarence Wilson
 
Doris Pawn
 
Lee Phelps
 
Montgomery Carlyle
 
Wilson Hummell
 
Lionel Barrymore
 

Crew


Wallace Worsley
Director
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Charles Kenyon
Writer
Philip Lonergan
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