Lon Chaney — Actor (19)
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A Blind Bargain (1922)
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Wallace Worsley actor: Lon Chaney / Raymond McKee …
other title: 盲目的交易 / Rival des Dieux …
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings. A lost film.
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The Grand Passion (1918)
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Ida May Park actor: Dorothy Phillips / Jack Mulhall …
other title: 熱情
Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own financial ambitions; however, Jack envisions The Trumpet as an instrument of good and soon persuades Dick to clean up Powderville.
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Mockery (1927)
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Benjamin Christensen actor: Lon Chaney / Barbara Bedford …
other title: Nobreza / Der Sohn der Taiga
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
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The Light in the Dark (1922)
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Clarence Brown actor: Hope Hampton / E.K. Lincoln …
other title: 暗中の光
A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief is told by the girl of a goblet, that could be the Holy Grail, which has healing powers and could help her. The thief, touched by her predicament, sets out to steal the goblet and bring it to her.
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By the Sun's Rays (1914)
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Charles Giblyn actor: Murdock MacQuarrie / Lon Chaney …
other title: 光天化日
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
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While the City Sleeps (1928)
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Jack Conway actor: Lon Chaney / Anita Page …
other title: Enquanto a Cidade Dorme / Wenn die Großstadt schläft
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (2007)
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Florin Iepan actor: 贝拉·卢戈西 / 克拉克·盖博 …
other title: Der gefallene Vampir / Le vampire déchu
On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.
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Tell It to the Marines (1926)
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George W. Hill actor: Lon Chaney / William Haines …
other title: Os Fuzileiros / Brand im Osten
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.