Lon Chaney Movies

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher...

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

When taken to a San Francisco cafe by her sweetheart Jimmy, Georgia Rodman witnesses the shooting of a policeman by an underworld gang. The owner,...

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief...

A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers,...

Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his marital situation.

A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

A spirited young college graduate is sent away to the Kentucky mountains to live with her uncle after returning home and scorning the effete minister...

Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with...

The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid...

Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a...

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's...

A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.

Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he's...