A Blind Bargain is a lost 1922 American silent horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures.

This delay was due to problems with the censors, as the film's theme dealt with doctors creating artificial life and attempting to play God.

The story involves a mad scientist who forces a man who is down on his luck to enter into an agreement to become a willing subject of the doctor's weird experiments, knowing full well that the result will be the loss of his humanity.

Robert Sandell (McKee), despondent over his failure as a writer and his mother's declining health, 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 condition – that Robert shall, at the end of eight days time, deliver himself to the doctor to do with as he will for experimental purposes.

At dawn, they show him as a warning a mysterious underground vault which holds a complete operating room and a tunnel of cages in which are confined strange half-human prisoners – the previously failed experiments of Dr. Lamb's.

Finally freed from the terms of his "blind bargain", Robert returns to his home to learn that his book has met with success and that Angela awaits him at the altar.

Critical response for the film was good, most praising Lon Chaney's dual performance as the mad doctor and his apish servant as being the highlight of the picture.

[9][7] Three years after A Blind Bargain was released, Chaney's co-star, Ray McKee, appeared with Clara Bow in a film titled Free to Love.