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Released
1920 · FILM

The Penalty

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
90 min
CrimeDramaHorror

Synopsis

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 14

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Don Short

Box Office

1920 · Box office

Produced on a $89K budget

Production budget

$89K

Also known as

  • El hombre sin piernases
  • Satanfr

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