Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: contemporary picture takes place in New York City, Fact2: mad scientist turns circumstances on young man to do bidding, Fact3: Lamb agrees to perform operation on Sandell, Fact4: Robert agrees Frantic with worry over dying mother 's condition, Fact5: Mother and son take up residence in Lamb home not only by doctor but by wife
Output (English): The film is a contemporary 1920s, though the book was published in 1897 picture that takes place in New York City. The story involves a mad scientist who turns circumstances on a young man to do his bidding. Robert Sandell Raymond McKee, despondent over his bad luck as a writer and his mothers declining health, attacks and attempts to rob a theatergoer, Dr. Lamb Lon Chaney, a sinister, fanatical physician living in the suburbs of New York. Lamb takes the boy to his home, learns his story, and agrees to perform an operation on Mrs. Sandell Virginia True Boardman on one consideration – that Robert shall, at the end of eight days, deliver himself to the doctor to do with as he will, for experimental purposes. Frantic with worry over his dying mothers condition, Robert agrees. Mother and son take up their residence in the Lamb home, where Robert is closely watched, not only by the doctor, but by his wife Fontaine La Rue and a grotesque hunchback Lon Chaney, in a dual role, whom Robert learns afterwards is the result of one of the doctors experiments. Dr. Lamb, anxious to keep his hold on Robert, not only gives him spending money, but assists him in having his book published through Wytcherly, head of a publishing company. Robert meets Wytcherlys daughter Angela Jacqueline Logan and promptly falls in love. In the meantime, the days are slipping by to the time of the experiment. Robert has been warned by Mrs. Lamb and the hunchback that great danger threatens him. At dawn, they show him as a warning a mysterious underground vault in which is a complete operating room and a tunnel of cages in which are strange prisoners – previously failed experiments of Lambs. In agony and fear, Robert goes to the physician and tries to buy himself out of the bargain, for his book has been published and he is now a successful writer. There is yet one day before the time limit is up, but the doctor, realizing his victim may try to escape, seizes him and straps him to the operating table. He is rescued by Mrs. Lamb, the hunchback releases a cage door, and the doctor is himself brought to a horrible end at the hands of an apeman wrecked mentally by the doctors experiments. Finally freed from the terms of his blind bargain, Robert returns to his home to learn that his writings have met with success and that Angela waits for him at the marriage ceremony.