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Article: Nine-film Collection Reveals Many Faces of Lon Chaney
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 15, 1995
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Silent film great Lon Chaney was known as the "Man of a Thousand
Faces." Several of his most memorable ones are on view in the new
Kino on Video "Lon Chaney Collection."
The collection features eight Chaney films ($25 each), plus an
informative documentary, "Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask." All prints
have been restored and digitally remastered from the best available
material.
Chaney rose to fame in the early 1920s, during an era when the
majority of film actors epitomized glamor, sophistication and beauty.
Chaney, however, gave moviegoers indelible portraits of ugliness and
pathos. His characters ranged from victims to villains.
Chaney's masterful use of makeup, extraordinary body ...