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LON CHANEY SR. SALUTE
October 3, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Lon Chaney Sr., the Man of a Thousand Faces, is tonight’s featured artist, and you can see a few of his faces in full view (or dimly lit) in this evening’s lineup. Most famously: At 9 p.m. ET, TCM presents the silent 1925 classic version of Phantom of the Opera (pictured). But there are other films, rarely shown even on TCM, that are very much worth watching, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with Tod Browning’s creepy 1927 film The Unknown, in which Chaney plays a killer hiding in a circus sideshow, pretending to be an armless man (Browning, five years later, would revisit the carney setting for his macabre 1933 masterpiece, Freaks). Also on the schedule: At 10:45 p.m. ET, 1925’s silent film The Monster, and, at 12:30 a.m. ET, a real rarity: 1920’s The Penalty, in which Chaney plays a double amputee seeking revenge on the doctor who removed his legs.

 
 
 
 
 
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