A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife..
If you are looking for the polite, romanticized version of the silent era, West of Zanzibar is not it. This is a film that feels like it was filmed in a basement and smells like stale gin and swamp water. Directed by Tod Browning in 1928, it is a nasty, efficient piece of pulp fiction that serves as a perfect showcase ...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Tod Browning
Tod Browning
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"If you are looking for the polite, romanticized version of the silent era, West of Zanzibar is not it. This is a film that feels like it was filmed in a basement and smells like stale gin and swamp water. Directed by Tod Browning in 1928, it is a nasty, efficient piece of pulp fiction that serves as a perfect showcase for Lon Chaney’s singular ability to make physical deformity look like a spiritual condition. It is absolutely worth watching today, provided you have the stomach for a story that ..."
Curtis Nero
Waldemar Young, Chester M. De Vonde, Joseph Farnham, Kilbourn Gordon, Elliott J. Clawson
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