The Penalty (1920) - Wallace Worsley

One of the films that helped establish Lon Chaney's reputation as the man of a thousand faces, this yarn has Chaney playing an amputee criminal mastermind whose been plotting his whole life to get revenge on the doctor who unnecessarily cut off his legs. The film is none too terrifying and Chaney's harness to tie his legs behind him might seem like simple tools but the film goes along with a tradition of films where the misshapen, or deformed naturally were unbalanced mentally. Of course Chaney's cure is at once silly and ironic it does help to dispel that myth. Rather melodramatic stuff here and something to hunt out for fans only.