Lon Chaney

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"A melodrama about a fiendish-looking man who lives in the catacombs below the Paris Opera House and about his unrequited love affair with an opera starlet whom he tutors." --

Having established the fort at Boonesborough, Daniel Boone is leading more eager settlers to the new lands. However, Simon Grity, a vicious white renegade, is stirring up the tribes against the fort and the homesteaders. Much depends upon Bone's strong relationship with his blood brother, Shawnee Chief Blackfish, which sadly for them both, is put to the ultimate test.

A deformed bellringer at Notre Dame cathedral in late 15th century France rescues a gypsy girl from the evil intentions of her guardian.

Set during the reign of Louis XI. Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. When he sets Quasimodo out to kidnap Esmeralda, Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, rescues her and captures Quasimodo. Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda....

Includes three of Chaney's major works, a documentary about Chaney and a photo reconstruction of the lost film London after midnight.

When an incompetent doctor amputates the legs of a young boy, he has no idea that the youth will grow up to be the immoral and embittered Blizzard, a criminal mastermind who orchestrates a bizarre and heinous plot to avenge himself upon his malefactor.