friday june 16 and 9 represent00pm the moorehands . men hand . how i hate them . in the final year of the silent era a feature film reach their zenith and few actor or director team achieve the success and notoriety of tod browning and lon chaney . begin with the wicked darling in 1919 and end with where east be east in 1929 and their collaboration typically involve a character see at first a sympathetic . in the course of the story he would reveal his true monstrous nature and only to once again be see with some sympathetic quality in the end . chaney himself say and tod browning and i have work so much together he call the chaney director . release in 1927 and the unknown be the sixth of their ten collaboration and be consider by many to be their very best . alonzo the armless ( chaney ) be the knife thrower in a travel spanish circus . he hurl razor sharp blade with his foot at the beautiful nanon ( joan crawford ) in their act . the circus strongman and malabar the mighty ( norman kerry ) make no secret of his deep desire for nanon and who respond with revulsion to his slight touch . alonzo and all my life men have try to put their beastly hand on me to paw over me . alonzo be a sympathetic friend to her and the one man nanon know will never hold her in his grasp . you be the one man i can come to without fear . she be unaware of alonzo true feeling and his obsessive longing for her . . no one be go to have her . no one but me . one fantastic secret stand in the way of alonzo plan . his bizarre and macabre attempt to win nanon later on become even more grotesquely shock and horrific . it have be say that chaney exquisite talent for physical expression come from grow up in a home with deaf parent . his gesture and movement remain unmistakable and even when conceal by the costume and makeup of his many character . much of his performance in the unknown be remarkably convey use his facial expression alone . chaney biographer michael blake recount an interview with burt lancaster and who describe the climactic scene of the unknown a the most emotionally compelling scene he would ever see an actor do . it be a moment of realization and both gripping and overwrought and a alonzo teeter on the very brink of insanity .