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Auction History Result 7b1595 MOCKERY 2 8x10 stills 1927 half-witted Russian peasant Lon Chaney, Cortez, Bedford, Puffy! Date Sold 8/27/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (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. Important Added Info: Note that we have pictured the backs of these stills (see our images). Condition: good to very good. Both have lightened somewhat and have some ink transfer at left (see our images). They are otherwise in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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