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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Kino Video
EAN: 0738329021627
Format: Black & White, DVD, Silent, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoJapaneseDubbed
Manufacturer: Kino Video
MPN: 2162
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2001
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1920-08
Editorial Review:
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Lon Chaney, the Man of a Thousand Faces, was no mere makeup wizard, as this dark, deviant crime drama shows. Strapping his legs into a painful leather harness to play a double-amputee underworld kingpin, Chaney scrambles through the film like a human spider weaving his criminal web across San Francisco with equal parts seduction and terror. Crippled as child by an incompetent doctor, he dedicates his life to vengeance in a double-barreled plot that will bring both the city and the doctor (now an honored physician) to their knees. Director Wallace Worsley (who later collaborated with Chaney on his legendary Hunchback of Notre Dame) peppers the busy plot with bizarre touches of sexual menace and sadism, and he creates a wicked atmosphere of corruption and murder that implicates every character. Even the absurd twist of a happy ending can't wipe that away. --Sean Axmaker
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Though this film was made a few years before Lon Chaney became a huge star, when he was still known primarily as a very good character actor, it easily seems like his best surviving pre-stardom film. In spite of his stardom still being a little bit away, he was given the lead role, and did such a wonderful job with it. I think his performance as the villainous double amputee Blizzard (what a great character name!) ranks up there as being just as compelling and great as his performance in a film ... Read More
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The unusual story for "The Penalty" was taken from a novel by a popular author of the early 20th century, but it is the star and legendary character actor, Lon Chaney, who really makes this film unforgettable. Before his most famous roles as the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera, Chaney's most impressive and highly-acclaimed performance was in this film, "The Penalty", in which he plays a double amputee and criminal mastermind with chilling conviction. In fact, next to his portrayal ... Read More
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Aside from the legendary comedians of the time, Lon Chaney was the KING of silent cinema and one of the few artists of this genre whose work holds up well today.
Here, our man plays Blizzard, a man who is mistakenly crippled in a bothced operation as a child by a crooked doctor who covers up his mistake. He grows up into a mad super-criminal bent on wreaking vengeance on the world whith his misfit followers. While there is not a light minute in the film, it doesn't overwhelm you. You are drawin ... Read More
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It is always an experience to watch Lon Snr`s work as he is, in my opinion, the greatest charactor actor of all time. As the renowned Chaney historian, Michael F Blake, reiterates many times; Chaney was never a horror actor. Neither the Hunchback (incidentally eagerly awaited in a new DVD presentation-hint hint KINO)nor Phantom are horror films.
The penalty is witness to the input, perfection and endurance that Chaney would bring to a role never giving into anything less than startling realism ... Read More
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One is tempted to limit one's remarks to "Wow!. I am a fan of Lon Chaney the Elder (the Younger wasn't bad either). He was a master of mime, of storytelling without words. He had one of the most expressive pairs of hands in history. He was, by the standards of the 21st century, a stylized, broad, melodramatic actor, but in the special, very rich, context of his time, he was one of the greatest. In "The Penalty" he pushes the envelope once again as a demonic master criminal who is so evil he is hired to pose for ... Read More
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