“Gruesome and at times shocking” as well as “anything but a pleasant story,” according to the 1927 New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, “The Unknown” stars Lon Chaney as Alonzo the Armless, a ...
In "The Unknown," Chaney plays an "armless" carnival knife thrower who falls in love with a beautiful bareback rider (a young Joan Crawford) who recoils at being touched. In "West of Zanzibar," Chaney ...
Actor Lon Chaney tested the boundaries of on-screen performance, pushing the limitations of his body and innovating with prosthetics. While German expressionist classics like “Nosferatu” defined early ...