The Blackbird (1926)

Directors

Tod Browning

Cast

Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée, Doris Lloyd

The story

thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Blackbird (1926) A title card introduces the setting as London's Limehouse district, "with its lust, greed and love, a sea of fog, a drama of human faces.” A cheap music hall is overseen by the tough Dan Tate, who also manages a small gang of thieves under the alias "The Blackbird." As a cover, though, Tate also poses as his own deformed and noble twin brother, affectionately known as the "Bishop of Limehouse," who supposedly lives above an adjoining mission for the poor. When police arrive at the mission and accuse The Blackbird of robbery, he offers the alibi that he had been sleeping in his room and goes to…

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