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The Penalty (1920) - The Constant Bleeder
One of the earliest films to showcase the mad genius of Lon Chaney. He scores big here as the kind of tragic villain that movies rarely get right. His amputee gangster, nicknamed Blizzard, is as much an exposed nerve as a dark heart. Sad and ferocious as a caged attack dog, Chaney never lets us