Adapted from Norman Springer’s book Riot Squad, this is an early Lon Chaney Jr. role. Directed by Ray Kirkwood and Jack Nelson, this stars Chaney as John Arthur “Silk” Lennox, a nightclub owner who plays both sides as he’s very sure of himself. But he didn’t count on Jimmy Lambert (Dean Benton) and Nola Travers (Marie Burton), who perform at his club, for trying to blackmail him for a heist.
This is an hour-long, mostly musical, so if you get a Mill Creek set and expected a Legend of Horror or, at the very least, a gangster movie, you don’t really get that. But anyway, a chance to see Lon Jr. without makeup years before he became well-known.
You can watch this on YouTube.
