The classic silent movie “The Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Chaney, will be shown at the Falmouth Public Library on Saturday, March 14, at 3 PM.

“Gruesome and at times shocking” as well as “anything but a pleasant story,” according to the 1927 New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, “The Unknown” stars Lon Chaney as Alonzo the Armless, a ...

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary. We learn of his deaf mute ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A ...

What is old is new again when it comes to silent films, now making a comeback in metropolitan areas such as New York City. “The Wall Street Journal” notes that venues such as Film Forum routinely ...