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Claire Adams and Lon Chaney in The Penalty (1920)

Lon Chaney: Blizzard

The Penalty

Lon Chaney credited as playing...

Blizzard

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  • Barbara Ferris: Why do you live in the underworld?
  • Blizzard: When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for power in Hell.
  • Blizzard: Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved.
  • Blizzard: [to Barbara] Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan.
  • Blizzard: [to Barbara] Laughter burns a cripple like acid.
  • Blizzard: Once before a woman surfeited me with her caresses. She's dead!
  • Blizzard: You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years.
  • Blizzard: At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco.
  • Blizzard: Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments.
  • Blizzard: The signal will be an explosion.
  • Blizzard: By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs.
  • Blizzard: The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will.
  • Blizzard: And then we shall vanish with our treasure.
  • Blizzard: [to his white slaves] By the way, Barbara Nell, who strayed from us, now sleeps on a marble slab - - - - in the morgue.
  • Blizzard: Everything comes to him who waits.
  • Blizzard: I am the unhappiest beast in the world.
  • Blizzard: I've waked from a terrible dream! I was a devil - - I did things that I shudder to think of!
  • Blizzard: Fate chained me to Evil - for that I must pay the Penalty.
  • Blizzard: Don't grieve, dear - - death interests me.
  • Blizzard: Better come out of that closet or I'll begin to shoot!
  • [Rose comes out, crying]
  • Blizzard: Crying won't help - talking may.
  • Rose: What's the use - - you're going to kill me anyhow.
  • Blizzard: As you can see, you haven't been allowed to do too much damage.
  • Rose: I think I'm glad.
  • Blizzard: Why?
  • Rose: Don't you see?
  • [they embrace]
  • Rose: Master!
  • Blizzard: [singing] And I shall walk as men walk.I shall be the master of a city! And for my mangled years the city shall pay me - - - - with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!
  • Blizzard: Do I look like Satan? Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself.
  • Barbara Ferris: How do you happen to know so much about Art?
  • Blizzard: My father, who shall be nameless, was a distinguished man. But he detested little boys with their legs clipped off. So at fifteen I hobbled out of his life.
  • Blizzard: Rose, my dear! Under the piano, my darling - we'll have some music. I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven.
  • Blizzard: A death song, Rose!

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