The Black Bird (1926)
Directed by Tod Browning
Genres - Drama, Crime, Spirituality & Philosophy |
Sub-Genres - Crime Drama |
Release Date - Jan 11, 1926 (USA - Unknown), Feb 13, 1926 (USA) |
Run Time - 77 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct characterizations. By day, the crippled Bishop of Limehouse (Chaney) is a kindly, beneficent figure, ministering to the needs of the poor and destitute. But by night, the Bishop sheds his clerical garb-and his physical handicap-to become the Black Bird, mastermind of a vast underworld organization. Completely undetectable and untouchable, the Black Bird can only be destroyed by himself-a fact that consumes the film's final reels. Renee Adoree and Owen Moore also star in this atmospheric melodrama, which was adapted by Waldemar Young from Tod Browning's story The Mockingbird.
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bishop, criminal, mastermind, underworld, disguise, handicap, double-life