A true horror film. Lon Chaney's acting is just perfectible as the mad man whose legs were unnecessarily amputated since his childhood. A good, creepy silent story set in San Francisco.
77/100.
This review of The Penalty (1920) was written by Benoît R on 16 Sep 2009.
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