Lon Chaney's model, Acquanetta, is jealous of his fiancee, Jean Parker, so she puts acid in his medicine cabinet, where she knows he keeps his eyewash to lave his tired eyes after sessions. He does so, and burns out his corneas. Miss Parker's father, Edward Fielding changes his will to leave Chaney his corneas. He's quickly and conveniently found clubbed to death with Chaney standing over him. The operation is not successful, so Chaney calls off the engagement and is nursed by Acquanetta, who is loved by Paul Kelly, who used to yearn for Miss Parker.
I should mention that Thomas Gomez, Jonathan Hale, George Meeker, and Eddie Dunn all have roles in this slop. It was badly directed by Reginald LeBorg, who had recently graduated from directing bad soundies. Mostly though, I am going to discuss Acquanetta, dubbed by studio publicity "The Venezuelan Volcano". She speaks her lines with no accent, nor emotion, nor seeming to understand their meaning, as befits someone from Venezuela whose other roles include "The Ape Woman" in the minds of publicists, I suppose. She was born as Mildred Davenport in Wyoming and appeared in a total of eleven movies. She quit the movies in 1950 and moved with her new husband to Arizona. There she occupied herself with family, charity, and publishing her poetry. She died in 2004 at the age of 83.
I should mention that Thomas Gomez, Jonathan Hale, George Meeker, and Eddie Dunn all have roles in this slop. It was badly directed by Reginald LeBorg, who had recently graduated from directing bad soundies. Mostly though, I am going to discuss Acquanetta, dubbed by studio publicity "The Venezuelan Volcano". She speaks her lines with no accent, nor emotion, nor seeming to understand their meaning, as befits someone from Venezuela whose other roles include "The Ape Woman" in the minds of publicists, I suppose. She was born as Mildred Davenport in Wyoming and appeared in a total of eleven movies. She quit the movies in 1950 and moved with her new husband to Arizona. There she occupied herself with family, charity, and publishing her poetry. She died in 2004 at the age of 83.