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I have the Lon Chaney collection from TCM. This collection includes The Ace of Hearts, Laugh Clown Laugh, The Unknown, Lon Chaney bio (very interesting stuff), and London After Midnight. London After Midnight is just photo reconstruction but still very good.
Lon Chaney was one very talented actor. Chaney's parents and grandparents were deaf. When his mother became ill and bedridden she couldn't communicate with him with her hands anymore. The only way that they could communicate was through their eyes. This is why Chaney was an excellent silent film actor. There is an awesome scene in The Unknown where Chaney finds out he has had his arms amputed for nothing when he finds out that his love interest has gotten over her fear of hands and has fallen in love with another. The look in his eyes... You would just have to watch it to really know how great of an actor this guy was. He was amazing.
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