A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
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Lon Chaney as Wilse Dilling
Virginia Valli as Gertrude Hadley
Jack Mower as Jack Cooper
William Welsh as Mischa Hadley
Henry A. Barrows as John Cooper, Sr.
Christine Mayo as Ann Cardington
Harry De Vere as Olaf Wismer
John Beck as Bill
Walter Long as The Captain
Lambert Hillyer Director
Charles Kenyon Writer
William Dudley Pelley Story
Carl Laemmle Producer
Arthur F. Statter Writer
Dwight Warren Director of Photography
United States 10 June 1923
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The Shock Released: 1923.
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