The Shock (1923)

Directors

Lambert Hillyer

Cast

Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh

The story

In 1906, Wilse Dilling, a crippled gangster living in Chinatown, receives a coded message to go to the home of his boss, Ann Cardington, known as "Queen Ann", a powerful crime boss feared in the underworld. When Wilse meets with her, she sends him to the suburban town of Fallbrook, where he is to establish himself and await her instructions in dealing with a former lover of hers, a banker named Micha Hadley, who had once betrayed her. Dilling is to pose as a telegraph operator in the local office there in order to keep watch on the banker.

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