Get in the mood for Halloween with a screening of the 1927 film "The Unknown," starring Lon Chaney Sr. and Joan Crawford, in one of her earliest starring roles. The free showing will be at 7 p.m.

In "The Unknown," Chaney plays an "armless" carnival knife thrower who falls in love with a beautiful bareback rider (a young Joan Crawford) who recoils at being touched. In "West of Zanzibar," Chaney ...

“Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble, we accept her, we accept her, one of us, one of us.” The ten films that director Todd Browning and actor Lon Chaney made together are among the strangest of the silent ...

“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 Armless, a ...

Kenneth Turan is a Times film critic and the author of "Never Coming to a Theater Near You." He is writing a biography of Lon Chaney. Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my accursed ugliness. --”The ...

IF EVER A PAIR WERE meant for each other, it was deformity-as-metaphor director Tod Browning and “Man of a Thousand Faces” actor Lon Chaney, two meticulous crafters of the dark side. One of their best ...

As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work of either man, though each film definitely has its moments. One of the best ...

American Masters – Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces premiered on PBS in 2000. When we think of the silent film era, we think of actors like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Clara Bow, stars who created ...

Lon Chaney was the most popular male movie star of the second half of the 1920s. Think about that: In an era that valued youth and jazz, the most popular actor in the country was a middle-aged man who ...

Master Carrion's carnival sideshow is a pretty creepy place, and its creepiness is given full rein in "The Unknown," an imaginative musical adaptation of a 1927 silent movie that starred Lon Chaney.