The Penalty (Blu-ray)
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The Penalty
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 23, 2012
- Originally Released: 1920
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lon Chaney | |
Performer: | Ethel Grey Terry, Charles Clary, Claire Adams, Kenneth Harlan, James Mason, Edouard Trebaol, Milton Ross, Wilson Hummel & J. Montgomery Carlyle | |
Directed by | Wallace Worsley |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The reason the film still works instead of surviving merely as a somewhat hysterical anti-communist message film is Lon Chaney's performance.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
Demonstrates the wonder and value of pre-digital moviemmaking: For all intents and purposes, Chaney *is* a legless man in 'The Penalty,' and the film is a documentary record of this impersonation.
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: C+ --
Somewhat interesting for historical reasons and for Chaney's memorable performance.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[T]his is one of Chaney's most impressively committed early performances.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
The Penalty is by far one of the greatest unsung achievements of über-legend Lon Chaney
Blunt Review
Rating: 4/5 --
Famous scene of Chaney straightening twisted legs is real plus.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Product Description:
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 45,392
- UPC: 738329105921
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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