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Auction History Result 3t1451 MOCKERY 8x10.25 still 1927 Lon Chaney Sr. watches Ricardo Cortez kiss Barbara Bedford! Date Sold 2/14/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Mockery, the 1927 Benjamin Christensen silent Russian Revolution romantic love triangle melodrama (a really unusual story, where Lon Chaney Sr. is a half-witted Russian peasant living in Siberia at the start of the Russian Revolution; he helps a woman who promises to greatly improve his situation in life, and after he does, only after being brutally beaten, he learns she is a Countess; he helps her back to the palace, where she "rewards" him by making him an assistant in the kitchen!; she has a boyfriend who is a Captain in the White Army, and Chaney lusts after her; when the Revolution occurs, he thinks he is now "her equal", and he attempts to rape her, but he is stopped, and the Countess speaks well of him and saves his life, telling the soldiers that he has been loyal!) starring Lon Chaney Sr., Barbara Bedford, Ricardo Cortez, Mack Swain, and Emily Fitzroy. Note that this movie clearly owes a great debt to Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", as the theme of the story is extremely similar! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. There is paper loss in the top and bottom blank borders, with some faint stains, smudges, and tiny creases around the edges, but they have little effect on the image area. Learn More about condition grades 
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