A Small Town Girl (1915)

Directed by

Allan Dwan

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman from a small town gets involved with people in a city. Lon Chaney plays a pimp in this silent drama.

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What happens

A Small Town Girl (aka The Small Town Girl) is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and featuring Lon Chaney, Pauline Bush and Rupert Julian. Some sources list this as a 1915 film, but the Blake book on Chaney says it was released specifically on Nov. 7, 1914. A still from the film exists that shows Lon Chaney as the Pimp, seated second from left. Chaney's co-star in this film, Rupert Julian, later directed him in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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