Chaney as character actor, before stardom
Lon Chaney’s films of the 1920s are well known, especially the classics “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Phantom of the Opera,” and are readily available on home video. Of Chaney’s 1920’s output, only “A Blind Bargain” (1922) and “London After Midnight” (1927) have not been found. In the 1910s, Chaney made 111 films and only 24 of them survive. None of these has ever been available, until now. “Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces, Volume 2” contains five of his early movies. Some have not survived in complete form, so missing scenes and intertitles were reconstructed whenever possible.<br /><br />“By the Sun’s Ray,” the earliest film (1914) in the collection, features Chaney in a Western as Frank Lawler, who works in the office of a mine. He’s in love with the superintendent’s daughter. She, however, has eyes for a handsome new detective whose identity remains unknown to Lawler. When a gold shipment is sent out, Lawler signals bandits to intercept it, but the plot is discovered, the theft foiled, and Lawler is killed trying to escape.<br /><br />“The Oubliette” is Part 1 of a large 1914 production intended to be released as a series titled “The Adventures of Francois Villon.” Villon is a vagabond and poet on his way to Paris with his friend Colin. Villon encounters Chevalier Bertran de la Payne (Lon Chaney), who is holding a lady, Philipppa de Annonay, against her will. Villon engages de la Payne in a sword fight and kills him. Chaney appears briefly in the second reel and reappears as a different character in Part 2, “The Higher Law,” which is not known to have survived.<br /><br />“The Millionaire Paupers,” released in 1915, centers on Enid Barne-Smith who flees home to escape her mother’s planned marriage to Allen Winthrop, whom the girl has never met. She takes up residence in a tenement owned by Winthrop and managed by Albert Martin (Lon Chaney). Winthrop disguises himself as a tenant in that building to investigate allegations of Martin’s crooked dealings. Enid and Allen meet, neither knowing the true identity of the other, and become mutually attracted.<br /><br />“Triumph” from 1917 is a show-biz themed melodrama about a young woman who aspires to a career on Broadway. Nell Baxter meets the leading man of a theatrical repertory troupe. In New York City, stage manager David Montieth (Lon Chaney) promises her the leading role in a play if she returns the favor in a physical way. Nell falls for playwright Paul Neihoff. The day the show is to open, Montieth finds out about Nell's love affair with Neihoff and cancels the play. Only if Nell capitulates to Montieth will he open the play. When Montieth forces himself on her, she stabs him to death and runs to Neihoff to confess. He tells her to go on stage, and he  confesses to the murder he didn’t commit. In the third act, Nell substitutes a real dagger for the prop dagger and kills herself. In the end, we learn that what we’ve seen was a story concocted by the leading man to show Nell that life in the theater isn’t all glamour.<br /><br />“The Scarlet Car” deals with embezzlement and the abuse of power. After nearly driving his father into bankruptcy, Billy Winthrop vows to reform. He’s in love with Beatrice Forbes, daughter of Paul Revere Forbes (Lon Chaney), a cashier at the local bank. Forbes discovers that Peabody, the bank president, has lost $35,000 of bank funds to speculation. Forbes confronts Peabody, they struggle, and Forbes is apparently killed. Peabody stages an accident to explain Forbes’ death, but by morning the body is gone. Beatrice is pressured into marrying Peabody’s son, but Billy rescues her. They take shelter in an abandoned cabin in which Forbes has also taken refuge. His mind is gone and he believes himself to be a messenger from his famous relative, Paul Revere. The missing funds are discovered and Peabody blames Billy for the theft. The truth eventually comes out, a mob tars and feathers both of the Peabodys, and Beatrice and Billy are reunited. Chaney, in a wig and full beard, is unrecognizable. The role is as a forerunner of the many character make-ups he would create a decade later.<br /><br />All films in this set are accompanied by new musical scores created and performed by Jon Mirsalis.<br /><br />There are no bonus materials on this unrated 2-disc release, but each of the five films contains informative, textual introductions that provide information about the film’s story and its history of preservation.<br /><br />These early films show Lon Chaney as a versatile character actor able to assume roles in various genres, though he was often cast as the villain. Lacking the typical good looks of a romantic leading man, he worked constantly and became a valued player because he was able to slip into many juicy parts as the chief antagonist. Eventually, his facility with make-up would propel him to the height of fame. No challenge was too great for the actor who became known as the “Man of a Thousand Faces.”
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : LON CHANEY: BEFORE THE THOUSAND FACES - VOL. 2 contains five more rare dramatic silent films from 1914-1917 in which Lon Chaney has a supporting role, selected by Chaney historian Jon Mirsalis. Lon Chaney's film work from the 1920s is well-known and- with the exception of the notoriously lost A Blind Bargain (1922) and London After Midnight (1927) - is mostly available on home video. In contrast, only 24 of the 111 films Chaney made at Universal in the 'teens survive, and only about 13 are complete. ••• The films on this set have been curated from the Library of Congress and private collections; missing scenes and titles have been reconstructed where possible, and new musical scores have been created for each by Jon C. MIrsalis. The films on this 2-disc set: BY THE SUN'S RAYS (1914) - THE OUBLIETTE (1914) - THE MILLIONAIRE PAUPERS (1915) - TRIUMPH (1917) - THE SCARLET CAR (1917). Blu-ray is NTSC, Region-free..