Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney - what members say

High Noon review by from Gloucestershire

A classic for so many reasons 23 June 2005
... plays the ordinary man trying to do the right thing as well as it can be done. Lon Chaney as the disillusioned old sherriff and Lloyd Bridges as the empty but ambitious ...

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame review by from Middlesex

Thoroughly enjoyed! 28 February 2005
...I have to admit to having a crush on Lon Chaney ever since seeing him play two brothers, one a priest, one a thief, in The Blackbird (1926). He was without make-up for a ...

Dickens Before Sound review by Jacuzzi from Birkenhead, England

Old Curiosities 28 February 2007
...est item at 74 minutes is Oliver Twist, featuring Jackie Coogan (as Oliver) and Lon Chaney (as Fagin), the rest of the films range from 4 - 12 minutes in length. Hopefull...

High Noon on DVD (1952)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Gary Cooper is Hollywood's perfect hero, the very embodiment of integrity and grace in this greatest of all Westerns. As a newly married town marshal, he must balance an innate sense of justice and duty with loyalty to his beautiful new--and pacifist--bride (Grace Kelly). When he is left by an ..read more »

Rate this: 72% from 5,217 members

The Unknown (1927)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Director: Tod Browning
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Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). Estrellita allows herself to fall in love with Alonzo (she fears men's arms), so he goes to a hospital and has his amputated. Meantime Malabar ..read more »

Rate this: 71% from 30 members

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame on DVD (1923)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Torrence
Director: Wallace Worsley
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This silent film is the first screen version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Chaney plays the deformed bell-ringer who is smitten by a beautiful dancing girl persecuted by the wicked Bishop of Notre Dame.

Rate this: 60% from 246 members

Phantom of the Opera to Watch Now (1925)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Director: Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick, Lon Chaney
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Run time: 107 minutes
One of the greatest of all silent films, this chillingly atmospheric adaptation of the classic horror tale stars Chaney in a tour de force performance as the masked composer haunting a Parisian opera house.

Rate this: 82% from 7 members

Hunchback Of Notre Dame to Watch Now (1923)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry
Director: Wallace Worsley
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Run time: 90 minutes
Adapted from Victor Hugo's novel, Quasimodo falls in love with a gypsy girl, Esmerelda and comes to her aid when she is accused of murder.

Rate this: 80% from 4 members

The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars
High Noon - 3.5 stars
The Unknown - 3.5 stars
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars

High Noon - 3.5 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
The Unknown - 3.5 stars
Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars

Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars
The Unknown - 3.5 stars
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.0 stars
High Noon - 3.5 stars

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