The Shock (1923)
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
- Date of release
- 1923-06-10
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Lambert Hillyer
Casting
- Lon Chaney — Wilse Dilling
- Virginia Valli — Gertrude Hadley
- Jack Mower — Jack Cooper
- William Welsh — Mischa Hadley
- Henry A. Barrows — John Cooper, Sr.
- Christine Mayo — Ann Cardington
- Harry De Vere — Olaf Wismer
- John Beck — Bill
- Walter Long — The Captain
Interesting facts
The Shock is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lon Chaney as a disabled man named Wilse Dilling. The film was written by Arthur Statter and Charles Kenyon, based on a magazine story by William Dudley Pelley. This is one of the rare Lon Chaney films in which his character ends up with the female "love interest." The film is readily available on DVD.
Production
The working title of the film was Bittersweet. The screenplay was based on William Dudley Pelley's magazine story, "The Pit of the Golden Dragon". Although mainly shot in the Universal studios, the climactic earthquake scenes were a mix of model work and archival film footage, mixed in with the live action. Principal photography on The Shock took place in June 1922, after Chaney finished work as Fagin on Oliver Twist (1922) in late May 1922.
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