Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces

A young woman (Cleo Madison) flees the efforts of her roughhewn father (Lon Chaney) to sell her in marriage to an old roué, in "A Mother’s Atonement" (1915). A woman (Dorothy Phillips) reaches into the bag of her physician father (Chaney) in a bid to keep her son out of military service, in "If My Country Should Call" (1916). Her reputation destroyed by a lustful woodsman (Chaney), a country girl (Phillips) looks to rebuild her life, in "The Place Beyond the Winds" (1916). 83 min. total. Silent with music score.