HE Who Gets Slapped
HE Who Gets Slapped (1924) starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
HE Who Gets Slapped is a sad, bittersweet story of love, betrayal, revenge. And the circus.
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The Penalty
The Penalty (1920), starring Lon Chaney, Ethel Grey Terry
Synopsis of The Penalty
In The Penalty, Lon Chaney stars as Blizzard a criminal mastermind crippled in his childhood by a young doctor’s mistake. He takes his revenge on the world through his crimes. But is the person he has become his fault or is there some other explanation?
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Seven Chances – Buster Keaton
Seven Chances (1925) starring Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer
Buster Keaton’s silent film, Seven Chances, in a nutshell, laugh out loud funny — I watched it last night on Turner Classic Movies with some of my children, and we were all laughing loud, long, and repeatedly.
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The Kid (1921) starring Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance
The Kid, produced & directed by Charlie Chaplin. Starring Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
Synopsis of Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid:
The Kid was Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length movie. It, more than anything else to that date, made Chaplin a living legend. It took over a year to produce, and was an incredible success for Chaplin. The opening title reads: “A comedy with a smile — and perhaps a tear.” As a woman (Edna Purviance) leaves a charity hospital with a newborn. She passes a church wedding, leaving her baby with a pleading note in a limousine. Then she goes off to commit suicide. She turns from suicide at the last moment to return to her child, only to find him missing. The limo had been stolen by thieves who dumped the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby. After failing to pass the child on to someone more suitable, raises the child himself.
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