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The Penalty
A man and a woman under looming shadows.
What
A 1920 American one-sheet for The Penalty, a crime thriller released by Goldwyn.
Why
Wallace Worsley directed it from Gouverneur Morris's pulp novel, with Lon Chaney in the lead.
Notice
The novelist's name is billed larger than any actor's, and pale ghostly figures crowd the blue wall behind the pair.
“A threat drawn in shadow”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Penalty (1920), dir. Wallace Worsley
- Country / studio
- United States · Goldwyn Pictures
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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