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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand FacesFilm 4 of 14
The Ace of Hearts
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Wallace Worsley, Goldwyn, 1921, from Gouverneur Morris. A secret society draws cards to pick who will kill a man they have judged. Lon Chaney is Farallone; John Bowers is Forrest; Leatrice Joy is Lilith, who will marry the man who draws the ace. Chaney does it without a limp or a hump: a face across a table. The ritual rooms have the air of a club that has read too many pamphlets. Morris also wrote The Penalty; Worsley directed both. The question the film asks is whether the card still counts after someone falls in love.
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Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
No limp, no hump, a face across a table. A secret society draws cards for a killing, and Chaney's Farallone draws the one that means love and murder at once. Worsley keeps the ritual rooms dim and the eyes lit. The useful test, early.
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