“Gruesome and at times shocking” as well as “anything but a pleasant story,” according to the 1927 New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, “The Unknown” stars Lon Chaney as Alonzo the ...

Known as 'the man of a thousand faces', this documentary profiles Lon Chaney (pictured), master of grotesque movie make-up. When he died in 1930, age 47, he had played 150 film roles, including ...