The Penalty

There was about one thing that i couldn't stop thinking about throughout the movie; how much it must have hurt Lon Chaney to have his legs tied back and walk on his kneecaps.  I've even read that he could only keep the harness on for a few minutes at a time before the pain became too much.  Being able to act as he did as an amputee is amazing.  When he happily posed as a model for a Satan look alike sculpture, his face was powerful and actually scary.  The silent film lost it for me with the ending.  Im not sure if it was believable in the 1920s that evil can be caused by something wrong in the brain that can be easily treated, but now it is very laughable.