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West of Zanzibar is a 1928 American synchronized sound film directed by Tod Browning. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The screenplay concerns a vengeful stage magician named Phroso ( Lon Chaney) who becomes ...
Publication date. 1928-11-24. Usage. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Topics. Silent, Congo, Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, Africa. A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife. Silent, Staring Lon Chaney and Directed by Tod Browning. Addeddate.
West of Zanzibar: Directed by Tod Browning. With Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter. A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Tod Browning
- 1928-11-24
West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Made A Terrible WreckNow legless ex-magician Flint (Lon Chaney), come to Africa to get even with ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who stole his now-deceased wife, confronts him with Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be Crane's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.
- Tod Browning
- Lon Chaney
While it was as unacceptable then as it is now, we often can’t tell the stories of early film without running into these offensive incidences. Bonus Short: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413: A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA 1928 . Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapic. An experimental short film on the dehumanizing aspects of the Hollywood film factory system.
West of Zanzibar is a 1928 American synchronized sound film directed by Tod Browning. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The screenplay concerns a vengeful stage magician named Phroso ( Lon Chaney) who becomes ...
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West of Zanzibar is a 1928 American silent film directed by Tod Browning about the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Lon Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (Lionel Barrymore). The supporting cast includes Mary Nolan and Warner Baxter. The picture is based on a 1926 Broadway play called Kongo starring Walter Huston.
