Saturday8pm wrote:
I think a real bummer here is the fact that Chaney's son was still alive when news of the fire became known,
and if I were he, I'd be royally P'dO that the studios let one of Chaney Sr's films go so unceremoniously.

If you're referring to the 1967 MGM vault fire, the studio didn't really advertise that they lost any films.  In fact, I don't believe there was even an official vault inventory until years later, and anything which was missing from the previous inventory was deemed to have been destroyed in the '67 fire.  The "Save LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT" cult didn't really begin until the mid-'70s, so I doubt Junior even knew that the film was lost.

And, by 1967, the Lonster was old, overweight, alcoholic, arthritic and unemployable, so he was probably PO'ed at everything.