It's the most bizarre movie dialogue ever written. Delivered on title cards in the 1927 silent classic The Unknown.

"On your wedding night she would see your arms....and hate you!"

"No, Cojo...she would never hate me...she would forgive me!"

"But you forget...she saw her father strangled by a hand with two thumbs."

And then, Lon Chaney lights a cigarette with his foot.

He plays a circus freak who's been pretending to have no arms...

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