The best Lon Chaney’s movies

Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney

01/04/1883- 26/08/1930
Today we present the best Lon Chaney’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Lon Chaney’s movies.
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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 22/09/1925
  • Character: Erik, The Phantom
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.

The Unknown

The Unknown
7.7/10
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7.2/10
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

The Blackbird

The Blackbird
6.7/10
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 24/11/1928
  • Character: Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/03/1927
  • Character: Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Laugh, Clown, Laugh
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/04/1928
  • Character: Tito Beppi
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

Universal Horror

Universal Horror
7.6/10
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

The Penalty

The Penalty
7.4/10
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

The Monster

The Monster
6.2/10
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Richelieu

Richelieu
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.

The Shock

The Shock
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/06/1923
  • Character: Wilse Dilling
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped
7.8/10
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
7.1/10
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Riddle Gawne

Riddle Gawne
7.2/10
The Library of Congress' American Silent Feature Film Survival Database claims that Gosfilmofond holds the film in its entirety.

Shadows

Shadows
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/11/1922
  • Character: Yen Sin
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.

The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 20/07/1925
  • Character: Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

London After Midnight

London After Midnight
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 03/12/1927
  • Character: Professor Edward C. Burke
The abandoned Balfour House, which former owner was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (This movie was lost in 1965 during a fire.)

Broadway Love

Broadway Love
5.8/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 21/01/1918
  • Character: Elmer Watkins
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.

Victory

Victory
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/12/1919
  • Character: Ricardo
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.

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