Mockery

Benjamin Christensen, MGM, 1927. Lon Chaney is Sergei, a Siberian peasant. The AFI, sixty-six minutes, 13 August: Countess Tatiana (Barbara Bedford) buys his guidance to Novokursk with food and a kitchen job; he is tortured, turns on her class, then dies defending her. Working title Terror, from a story by Stig Esbern. Ricardo Cortez as the officer. Sets by Cedric Gibbons. Christensen's second Hollywood film. Chaney as the peasant who cannot pick a side of the revolution and pays for both.