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This was always a must see whenever it played on TV when I was a kid, so I'm very pleased to have my own copy that I can watch any time I desire. Jimmy Cagney gives a bravura performance as Lon Chaney, Sr. One of my favorite scenes is when he first gets to Hollywood and is taught what background extras do. He whips open his makeup kit to transform himself into a pirate. Great!
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James Cagney was Great in this film, it stands out as one of my favorites of all time. It showcases the career of Lon Chaney and his tumultuous marriage to his wife, played by Dorothy Malone, who has a diffult time accepting Lon's folks because they are Deaf Mutes and an even more diffult time accepting the fact that the child she is carrying could end up the same way.
I have waited for years for this movie to make it to DVD and it is finally here and the transfer is excellent, but granted, I'm not as nit picky as some. I highly reccomend this one folks.
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In my opinion this is Cagney at his best. How he did not win an oscar for best actor I'll never know. Here Cagney stir's up many emotions from the audience, laughter,sadness,drama & fear!.
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This is a fantastic bio. Thank your lucky stars that Universal reissued it. I only wish that the makeup dealing with Lon Chaney was not underplayed. James Cagney was terrific and so were Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer. If you haven't seen it, SEE IT!
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MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES is one of Hollywood's better films about Hollywood! Produced by Universal International in 1957 it recounts the life and times of one of filmdom's most famous sons - Lon Chaney.
From an excellent Oscar nominated screenplay by R. Wright Cambell, Ivan
Goff and Ben Roberts it was directed with a deft hand by Joseph Pevney.
Pevney - himself a supporting player in such movies as "Body & Soul" (1947) and "Street With No Name" (1948) - directed some of Universal's biggest productions i.e. "Away All Boats" (1956), "Tammy" (1957) and one of Errol Flynn's last efforts "Istanbul" (1957).
Playing the leading role in this marvellous biopic is James Cagney who gives an outstanding measured performance as Lon Chaney, the strange tortured character actor of the silent screen and who, ironically, died from throat cancer with the advent of talking pictures.
Crisply photographed in black & white Cinemascope by the great Russell
Metty ("Touch Of Evil") the picture carries a strong sense of time and place. Expertly evoked is Vaudeville in the early part of the century where Chaney began as a song-and-dance man (Cagney delighting us with his
stylish brand of hoofing) and early Hollywood where he became an Extra
at Universal studios. Then with the help of his make-up box and his
uncanny facility to alter his appearance - sometimes resulting in great pain - he became known as The Man Of A 1000 Faces.
Notable reconstructions of Chaney's creations are quite brilliantly achieved in the picture. Cagney excels as the cripple being cured in a reworking of Chaney's famous scene from "The Miracle Man" (1919) and the phantom being unmasked in "Phantom Of The Opera" (1925) but especially noteworthy is Chaney's "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" (1923). Here Cagney is totally unrecognisable as he replicates Chaney's interpretation of Quasimodo being whipped on the punishment wheel in the village square. It is an intense moment in this picture and a remarkable achievement for Cagney the consummate actor. Watching him in this movie it is little wonder the great Orson Welles declared in the seventies that Cagney was the screen's greatest actor.
Others in the cast of this splendid film are Dorothy Malone, giving an
excellent performance as the singer and Chaney's first wife Cleva Creighton, Jane Greer as his second wife, Jim Backus as his Press Agent and Robert Evans as the boy wonder of the Motion Picture business, Irving Thalberg.
The picture also boasts a terrific music score by the underrated and now
wholly forgotten composer Frank Skinner (1897/1968). Skinner was composer in residence at Universal for many years and scored most of their prestigious productions such as "Tap Roots" (1948), "Magnificent Obsession" (1954), "Madame X" (1965) and "Shenandoah" (1965). "Man Of
A 1000 Faces" was, however, his greatest achievement. A soundtrack album of his music from the film - issued at the time of the picture's release - is now a much sought after recording.
A wonderful movie on DVD presented in a sharp black & white widescreen format that every collector will want to own if only for Cagney's amazing performance. His Lon Chaney is just as powerful and just as memorable as his George M. Cohan or Cody Jarret or Marty "The Gimp" Snyder!
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