Showing posts with label Lon Chaney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lon Chaney. Show all posts

February 11, 2013

West of Zanzibar (1928, Tod Browning)

 
West of Zanzibar
1928|Tod Browning

Lon Chaney slithers across the floor, his legs paralyzed from a fall, his heart blackened by betrayal. Eighteen years earlier, he was Phroso the Magician, a successful performer with a beautiful wife. But she left him for another man, only to die the following year after giving birth to a daughter. He has spent every day since then setting into motion a vicious revenge on the man and child who ruined his life, and now, gazing at the hence-grown girl, his hatred boils over.