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Ben Mankiewicz Intro - The Penalty (1920)

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Penalty , 1920.

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Vengeful San Francisco crime boss Blizzard (Lon Chaney), unaware that his new consort (Ethel Grey Terry) is a federal agent, is thrilled to find an improbable newspaper ad placed by the artist daughter of the doctor who wrongly amputated his legs as a child, in The Penalty, 1920.
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Weird Blizzard (Lon Chaney), kingpin of the San Francisco underground, turned evil by a doctor who amputated his legs as a boy, is being described by lawman Lichtenstein (Milton Ross) for his undercover agent Rose (Ethel Grey Terry), in Samuel Goldwyn’s The Penalty, 1920.

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