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Voidsville Follies

Works by Lon Chaney (2)

By the Sun's Rays

Charles Giblyn (director)
Lon Chaney (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jul 1914
Minutes: 11

A tragic tale of a cool porkpie cruelly condemned by fate to live as an outcast amongst the grotesque 10-gallon absurdities of "cow-boys" - that peculiar product of boy-bovine love.

Featured elements:

: action; alienation; antihero; cowboys; heroic defender; pathos; persecution; rescue; unrequited love

The Wicked Darling

Tod Browning (director)
Harvey Gates (writer)
Waldemar Young (writer)
Evelyn Campbell (author)
Priscilla Dean (lead)
Lon Chaney (lead)
Wellington A. Playter (lead)
Spottiswoode Aitken (lead)
Kalla Pasha (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1919
Minutes: 59

Talent of Priscilla Dean wasted in this cornball Bad-Girl-Gone-Good tale of 1-dimensional characters more suited to early Griffith fluff.

Featured elements:

: abuse; fighting; flashback; heroic defender; melodrama; prejudice; redemption; romance; strongman; treachery

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