Lon Chaney and Claire Adams.     Photo: Silent Era low-res collection.

Cast: Lon Chaney [‘Blizzard’], Ethel Grey Terry [Rose], Charles Clary [Dr. Ferris], Claire Adams [Barbara Ferris], Kenneth Harlan [Dr. Wilmot Allen], Milton Ross [Lichtenstein], James Mason [Frisco Pete], Doris Pawn [Barbary Nell]; Edouard Trebaol [Bubbles], Wilson Hummel, J. Montgomery Carlyle, Lee Phelps [policeman], Cesare Gravina [older man visiting Barbara’s studio]

Eminent Authors Pictures, Incorporated, and Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Charles Kenyon, from the novel The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris. Art direction by Gilbert White. Photographed (cinematography) by Donovan D. Short. Edited by J.G. Hawks with Frank E. Hull. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn and Rex Beach. / © 24 July 1920 by Gouverneur Morris [LP15383]. Released August 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Philip Lonergan had worked on a rejected scenario adaption of the novel for this project. In the film’s credits, Goldwyn Pictures is the only production company given credit. The film was rereleased in 1926.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3411.

Survival Status: Print exists in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm positive].

Keywords: Amputees - Crime: Murder - Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Crutches - Death: Murder - Lies - Medical: Doctors - Musical instruments: Pianos - Police: Detectives, Policemen - Reformation - Revenge - Sweatshops - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 20 September 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.3411; Dowd-Vidor p. 58; Edmonds-BigU pp. 109, 121-122; Everson-American p. 221; Everson-Detective p. 32; Fell-History p. 86; Lahue-Gentlemen pp. 48, 51; Limbacher-Feature p. 187; Parish-Gangster pp. 306-307; Spehr-American p. 100; Weaver-Twenty pp. 27, 76 : Website-NFPF.

Home Video: DVD.