The Penalty (1920)

Lon Chaney: Blizzard

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• Barbara Ferris : Why do you live in the underworld?

  Blizzard : When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for power in Hell.

• Blizzard : Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved.

• Blizzard : [to Barbara]  Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan.

• Blizzard : [to Barbara]  Laughter burns a cripple like acid.

• Blizzard : Once before a woman surfeited me with her caresses. She's dead!

• Blizzard : You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years.

  Blizzard : At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco.

  Blizzard : Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments.

  Blizzard : The signal will be an explosion.

  Blizzard : By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs.

  Blizzard : The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will.

  Blizzard : And then we shall vanish with our treasure.

• Blizzard : [to his white slaves]  By the way, Barbara Nell, who strayed from us, now sleeps on a marble slab - - - - in the morgue.

• Blizzard : Everything comes to him who waits.

• Blizzard : I am the unhappiest beast in the world.

• Blizzard : I've waked from a terrible dream! I was a devil - - I did things that I shudder to think of!

• Blizzard : Fate chained me to Evil - for that I must pay the Penalty.

• Blizzard : Don't grieve, dear - - death interests me.

• Blizzard : Better come out of that closet or I'll begin to shoot!

  [Rose comes out, crying] 

  Blizzard : Crying won't help - talking may.

  Rose : What's the use - - you're going to kill me anyhow.

• Blizzard : As you can see, you haven't been allowed to do too much damage.

  Rose : I think I'm glad.

  Blizzard : Why?

  Rose : Don't you see?

  [they embrace] 

  Rose : Master!

• Blizzard : [singing]  And I shall walk as men walk.I shall be the master of a city! And for my mangled years the city shall pay me - - - - with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!

• Blizzard : Do I look like Satan? Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself.

• Barbara Ferris : How do you happen to know so much about Art?

  Blizzard : My father, who shall be nameless, was a distinguished man. But he detested little boys with their legs clipped off. So at fifteen I hobbled out of his life.

• Blizzard : Rose, my dear! Under the piano, my darling - we'll have some music. I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven.

• Blizzard : A death song, Rose!