West of Zanzibar (1928)
Release Date: Nov 28, 1928 Wide
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In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a limehouse magician who is thoroughly in love with his wife Anna (Jacquelin Gadsdon). Also in love with Phroso's wife is ivory-trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore). After a performance, Anna tells Phroso that she is leaving him to go away with Crane to Africa. After Phroso confronts Crane, Crane kicks him down a second-floor landing, crippling him. Months later, Phroso, now known as
Nov 28, 1928 Wide
MGM
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Lon Chaney
Flint, Phroso -
Lionel Barrymore
Crane -
Warner Baxter
Doc -
Mary Nolan
Maizie -
Jacqueline Gadsdon
Anna -
Kalla Pasha
Babe -
Curtis Nero
Bumbo
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Chaney is a stage magician whose signature trick is to transform a beautiful woman into a skeleton: This is an absolutely brilliant -- and economical -- visual evocation of the relationship between sex and death, the erotic and the morbid...
What makes this film special is the virtuoso performance of Chaney.
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Foreign Titles
- West of Zanzibar (1928) (DE)
- West of Zanzibar (1928) (UK)
