Farris, an impatient assistant doctor, makes a mistake and amputates both of his legs. The incident was quietly hushed up, but the guy heard the conversation of the doctors and held a grudge. And soon grew into the underworld king of Blizzard, preparing a large-scale attack on San Francisco. But he also did not abandon the desire to take revenge on the successful doctor, Dr. Farris and his daughter, to whom he cunningly arranges to pose for a statue of Satan.
A silent crime thriller with the great and terrible Lon Cheney, who played the first words in the titles “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, and who in the case of “Punishment” can be called Jack Nicholson of the 20s. The face is distorted by the devil's grimace, charming and at the same time driving everyone into horror. It is especially noteworthy that his hero here also arranges to pose for the face of the devil. Also, in this context, we could not help but associate Blizzard’s crazy fantasies about looting the city with the Joker’s attacks on the city of Gotham. Although, at the time, it is said to have been the American reaction to the October Revolution of 1917. Otherwise, Wallace Worsley’s cinema can offer a good psychological intrigue in the spirit of “Cape of Fear”, a fascinating development and an unexpected, I would say, Bulgakov’s outcome! Unless you can complain about the line of Rose, an undercover polyswoman, seemingly confident pro, but showing herself along the way as a big layman, leaving traces everywhere behind and falling in love with her goal. How she survived to this point is a mystery.
8 out of 10