An American drama directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney.An aristocrat falls in love with a commoner and the classes of society clash over this. Meanwhile, a mutant is hanging around a cathedral.That's all of the plot that I could convey without spoiling it. The film is just so old that it is boring to my modern senses. I turned it off at about the hour mark because I didn't feel like watching another hour of black and white film with text screens. Normally, I rate shit for a turn-off, but this wasn't shitty, just boring. I rate it bad.
An American horror by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney, Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi.A man is trying to court an engaged woman and they go to a gypsy fortune teller. When the woman's friend leaves the fortune teller, she is attacked by a wolf. The man kills the wolf, getting bitten in the process. A man is found where the wolf was killed and the main character turns into a werewolf.This was so hokey, as expected. The werewolf makeup involved the actor waking on tip-toe to simulate wolf feet and they just glued a bunch of hair on him. The plot was basic like the style and the characters were 2 dimensional. I'm rating it poor because it's not that great a film.
A horror directed by Rupert Julian, starring Lon Chaney.A deformed man "haunts" the opera house, manipulating events to cause the success of one of the singers in an attempt to make her love him. He kidnaps the star twice, but her boyfriend finds out and enters the basement to save her.This film is a lot like Nosferatu in that it's silent with classical music and text screens. The music in this one is much better, but the villain is a little lame. What would really be funny is The Phantom of the Grand Ole Opry complete with a deformed redneck and country soundtrack. For what this movie is, I'm rating it o.k. for shallow plot and characters, but decent music.
