Recent Viewings, Part 2

[M.10rda]

Charles Laughton wasn't quite famous during Chaney's lifetime and was still in the UK but if he'd made it to Hollywood in the 20s they could've toured Vaudeville, doing Laurel & Hardy schtick in matching Quasimodo makeup.

[Rev. Powell]

A BLIND BARGAIN (2025): A heroin-addicted Vietnam vet tricks his mother into joining a medical trial run by a mad doctor (Crispin Glover) who wants her rare blood type for his youth program. A "remake" of a lost silent film by Lon Chaney, now set in 1970, the plotting is ragged (with the ending particularly rushed), but this low-budget effort skates by on originality and style. 3/5. (The original movie was lost in the same fire that destroyed "London After Midnight.")