The Blackbird (1926)
"The Man of a Thousand Faces"
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall for the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
- Date of release
- 1926-02-13
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (24)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Director
- Tod Browning
Casting
- Lon Chaney — Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
- Owen Moore — Bertram P. Glayde aka West End Bertie
- Renée Adorée — Fifi Lorraine
- Doris Lloyd — Limehouse Polly
- Andy MacLennan — The Shadow
- William Weston — Red
- Sidney Bracey — Bertie's No. 1 Man
- Ernie Adams — Bertie's No. 2 Man
- Charles Avery — Music Hall Patron (uncredited)
- Lionel Belmore — Music Hall Proprietor (uncredited)
- Margaret Bert — Minor Role (uncredited)
- Peggy Best — Minor Role (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Blackbird is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Waldemar Young, based on a story "The Mockingbird" by Tod Browning. Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie handled the set design. Makeup man Cecil Holland also played one of the old men living at the mission. Character actors Eddie Sturgis and Willie Fung appeared in several other Lon Chaney movies during this time period. The film took 31 days to shoot at a cost of $166,000. The tagline was "Lon Chaney in his successor to The Unholy Three". Stills on the internet shows Chaney in his dual role.
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