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The Penalty (1920)

Name: The Penalty
Genre: Horror
Released: 1920
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Cast: Ethel Grey Terry, Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Claire Adams, Kenneth Harlan

192087 minHorror✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

The Penalty (1920) is an 87-minute horror film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Wallace Worsley.

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About The Penalty (1920)

The Penalty is an American psychological thriller crime film starring Lon Chaney and originally released in 1920 by Goldwyn Pictures. The movie was directed by Wallace Worsley, and written by Philip Lonergan and Charles Kenyon, based upon the pulp novel by Gouverneur Morris.

As described in a film magazine, Blizzard, the legless crime boss of the Barbary Coast underworld, is possessed of two ambitions. One is to get revenge upon Dr. Ferris, whose blunder during a childhood operation resulted in Blizzard's legs being hastily and unnecessarily amputated; the other is to rally the Reds in his organization and loot the city of San Francisco. To accomplish one, Blizzard poses for the bust of Satan created by Ferris' daughter Barbara, whom he romances to get close to the doctor.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Penalty (1920 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Wallace Worsley
Cast includes: Ethel Grey Terry, Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Claire Adams, Kenneth Harlan, Doris Pawn, James Pier Mason, Milton Ross
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1920 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Lon Chaney silent (Goldwyn).
Source: Internet Archive

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