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The Blackbird is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 13 february 1926 with Lon Chaney
The Blackbird (1926)
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Add to a movie listThe Blackbird is a 1926 drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.
In April 2012 the film became available on DVD from the Warner Archive collection.
Synopsis
The Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a thief who uses a second identity when necessary: a rescue mission keeper with contorted legs, known as his bishop brother The Bishop. He lives above a cheap bar in the Limehouse district, where his alter ego The Bishop is beloved among all guests, unlike The Blackbird himself. One evenings, the police drops by looking for him after a robbery, and he flees to a vaudeville theater, where his ex-wife Limehouse Polly (Doris Lloyd) has an act. Since their divorce they have become bitter towards one another, but Polly is willing to admit that she once married The Blackbird 'because she saw the soul in him that he did not know he got himself'. Furthermore, she admits to her father that she is still in love with him.Actors
Lon Chaney
(Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop)
Owen Moore
(Bertram P. Glayde aka West End Bertie)
Renée Adorée
(Fifi Lorraine)
Doris Lloyd
(Limehouse Polly)
Sidney Bracey
(Bertie's No. 1 Man)
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