Silent Movies (LP)

There are no clues, no motives, no suspects. And what the only eyewitness knows may never be told. He's an autistic child, a nine-year-old whose memories of the brutal slaying of his parents are sealed inside him -- unless a determined and caring child psychologist can unlock them.

Its summertime in Forresterville, a small town in the middle of nowhere two teens rape and kill a mentally handicapped girl. They are in turn killed by the vengeful family. A young TV reporter, Sabrina Meyers, is witness to the crime. But the bodies disappear and nobody believes her. Determined, Sabrina starts digging for facts, and thereby ends up drawing the attention of the murderers. The killers will stop at nothing to dispose of Sabrina as quickly as possible.

In playing the devious Blizzard, Chaney tightly harnessed his legs within a pair of leather stumps, flawlessly rendering the physical disfigurement that so profoundly echoes the misshapen mind that drives this sadistic character toward his violent destiny. As Chaney biographer Michael Blake says, "One has to wonder if the intensity Lon brought to this role might have been due in part to the pain produced by his harness."