The Shock (1923 film)

The Shock is a 1923 film about a gang of blackmailers who send a cripple to expose a banker they have been blackmailing, until the cripple falls in love with the banker's daughter.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer. Written by William Dudley Pelley, based on the story The Pit of the Golden Dragon by William Dudley Pelley.

You Haven't seen anything yet! Wait until you see The Shock  (taglines)

Jack Cooper

• Let's be practical--we can't live on love--can we?

Taglines

• You Haven't seen anything yet! Wait until you see The Shock

Cast

• Lon Chaney — Wilse Dilling
• Virginia Valli — Gertrude Hadley
• Jack Mower — Jack Cooper
• William Welsh — Micha Hadley
• Henry A. Barrows — John Cooper, Sr.
• Christine Mayo — Ann Cardington, AKA "Queen Anne"
• Harry De Vere — Olaf Wismer (final film role)
• John Beck — Bill
• Walter Long — The Captain
• Bob Kortman — Henchman

External links

• The Shock quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• The Shock at Allmovie