The Penalty (Wallace Worsley, US 1920, 70 min.) and One Week (Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, US 1920, 20 min.)

These films represent a typical evening out at the movies in 1920, when American films really began to take over the world and when a show would typically have two or more contrasting films for a night’s entertainment. Lon Chaney stars as a maniacal San Francisco crime boss who seeks revenge on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs in The Penalty, and Buster Keaton stars as a man whose build-it-yourself house apparently seeks revenge on him in the hilarious short One Week. Live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli.