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The Shock is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lambert Hillyer released in USA on 10 june 1923 with Lon Chaney

The Shock (1923)

The Shock
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Released in USA 10 june 1923
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.1865453.1865453.1865453.1865453.186545

The Shock is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lon Chaney as a cripple named Wilse Dilling. The film was based on a story by William Dudley Pelley. This is one of the rare Lon Chaney films where he gets the girl.

Synopsis

Wilse Dilling, a crippled brute living in the savage streets of Chinatown, receives a coded message to go to the home of his boss, Ann Cardington, known as Queen Ann, a powerful crime boss feared in the underworld. When Wilse meets with her, she sends him to the town of Fallbrook, where he is to await her instructions in dealing with a former lover of hers, a banker named Micha Hadley, who had betrayed her. Being practically wheelchair-bound has not stopped Dilling from committing a lengthy series of crimes, but to his surprise, he finds that the small town atmosphere makes him feel differently about everything. He finds a good friend in Hadley's daughter Gertrude, whom Wilse not only falls in love with but she helps him believe that he can make a fresh start. But Wilse's new-found contentment is soon shattered by a series of new developments which includes trying to stop Queen Ann's plot towards Hadley and Gertrude being killed.

Actors

Lon Chaney

(Wilse Dilling)Virginia Valli

(Gertrude Hadley)Jack Mower

(Jack Cooper)William Welsh

(Mischa Hadley)Henry Arthur Barrows

(John Cooper, Sr.)
And :
Christine Mayo
Harry De Vere
Walter Long
Bob Kortman
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