Double Feature
West of Zanzibar
Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning’s lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the ivory trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals wile he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father… (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Tod Browning
- Starring
- Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter, Jacqueline Gadsdon
- Year
- 1928
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 65 minutes
Where East is East
Lon Chaney hunts the most dangerous game in director Tod Browning’s seamy tale of lust and revenge, costarring Lupe Velez and Estelle Taylor. When Tiger Haynes (Chaney) learns his beloved daughter Toyo (Velez) intends to marry Bobby Bailey (Lloyd Hughes), the son of an American circus owner, the Indochina-based animal trapper is skeptical at first but soon gives his blessing. But when Bobby joins Tiger for a boat ride down the river, the young man soon falls under the seductive spell of fellow passenger Madame de Sylva (Taylor), Toyo’s estranged mother and Haynes’ vengeful ex-wife. So when she attempts to even the score by stealing Bobby away from their daughter, Haynes decides to take care of de Sylva by declawing the cougar once and for all. (Warner Bros)
- Director
- Tod Browning
- Starring
- Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Lloyd Hughes
- Year
- 1929
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 65 minutes