Between 1919 and 1929, director Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney, Sr. made a total of ten films together, the best of them comprising what might be called the “masochistic melodrama” genre: Chaney’s protagonist, an obsessive, often embittered individual, usually suffers from some handicap or hindrance that allowed Chaney to indulge his fetishistic love of make-up maladies–the lengths he would go to achieve his desired effects are well known (binding his arms to his sides in a harness for...
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