History Film / WestOfZanzibar

''West of Zanzibar'' was directed by Tod Browning, who later achieved fame directing horror films such as ''Film/Dracula1931'' and ''Film/{{Freaks}}''. It was an adaptation of a stage play called ''Kongo'', and was remade in 1932 as the talking film ''Film/{{Kongo}}''.

''West of Zanzibar'' was directed by Tod Browning, who later achieved fame as the director of the origional Creator/BelaLugosi ''[[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} Dracula]]''. It was an adaptation of a stage play called ''Kongo'', and was remade in 1932 as the talking film ''Film/{{Kongo}}''.

* YourSonAllAlong: Phroso spends years plotting to victimize poor Maizie, turning her into an alcoholic prostitute, only to discover that she's actually his daughter.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Browning uses a few carefully chosen shots of sad women in Maizie's dive bar to imply that she and they are all prostitutes.

* YourCheatingHeart: Anna is having an affair.

''West of Zanzibar'' is a 1928 silent film starring the Man of a Thousand Faces, Creator/LonChaney. Here, Chaney plays Phroso, a stage magician, whose wife Anna has fallen in love with another man, Crane (Creator/LionelBarrymore). When Crane tells Phroso that Anna is going away with him, they fight, and Phroso falls from a second-floor walkway and is paralyzed. Shortly thereafter Anna returns and promptly dies, leaving behind an infant daughter that Phroso takes possession of, planning to use her in his revenge. Many years later, Phroso establishes himself as the leader of an African tribe in the Congo's ivory country, where Crane is now working as an ivory trader. Phroso steals Crane's ivory, not because he cares about ivory, but to lure Crane to him so he can take revenge.

* YourCheatingHeart: Anna is having an affair.

* TheChessmaster: Phroso manipulates almsot every single character in the film as pawns in his grand revenge plan.

''West of Zanzibar'' was directed by Tod Browning, who later achieved fame as the director of the origional Creator/BelaLugosi ''[[Film/{{Dracula 1931}} Dracula]]''.

* RevengeByCorruption: Raising your enemy's daughter to be an alcoholic prostitute is certainly one way to go about it.

* RevengeByProxy: Raising your enemy's daughter to be an alcoholic prostitute is certainly one way to go about it.

* DeathByDespair / ThePlotReaper: No explanation is given for why Anna keels over dead in the church, leaving Maizie in Phroso's clutches.

''West of Zanzibar'' was directed by Tod Browning, who later achieved fame as the director of ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}''.

''West of Zanzibar'' is a 1928 silent film starring the Man of a Thousand Faces, Creator/LonChaney. Here, Chaney plays Phroso, a stage magician, whose wife Anna has fallen in love with another man, Crane (Creator/LionelBarrymore]]). When Crane tells Phroso that Anna is going away with him, they fight, and Phroso falls from a second-floor walkway and is paralyzed. Shortly thereafter Anna returns and promptly dies, leaving behind an infant daughter that Phroso takes possession of, planning to use her in his revenge. Many years later, Phroso establishes himself as the leader of an African tribe in the Congo's ivory country, where Crane is now working as an ivory trader. Phroso steals Crane's ivory, not because he cares about ivory, but to lure Crane to him so he can take revenge.

''West of Zanzibar'' is a 1928 silent film starring the Man of a Thousand Faces, Creator/LonChaney. Here, Chaney plays Phroso, a stage magician, whose wife Anna has fallen in love with another man, Crane ([[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife Lionel Barrymore]]). When Crane tells Phroso that Anna is going away with him, they fight, and Phroso falls from a second-floor walkway and is paralyzed. Shortly thereafter Anna returns and promptly dies, leaving behind an infant daughter that Phroso takes possession of, planning to use her in his revenge. Many years later, Phroso establishes himself as the leader of an African tribe in the Congo's ivory country, where Crane is now working as an ivory trader. Phroso steals Crane's ivory, not because he cares about ivory, but to lure Crane to him so he can take revenge.

''West of Zanzibar'' was directed by Tod Browning, who later achieved fame as the director of ''Film/{{Dracula}}''.

''West of Zanzibar'' is a 1928 silent film starring the Man of a Thousand Faces, Creator/LonChaney. Here, Chaney plays Phroso, a stage magician, whose wife Anna has fallen in love with another man, Crane ([[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife Lionel Barrymore]]). When Crane tells Phroso that Anna is going away with him, they fight, and Phroso falls from a second-floor walkway and is paralyzed. Shortly thereafter Anna returns and promptly dies, leaving behind an infant daughter that Phroso takes possession of, planning to use her in his revenge. Phroso establishes himself as the leader of an African tribe in the Congo's ivory country, where Crane is now working as an ivory trader. Phroso steals Crane's ivory, not because he cares about ivory, but to lure Crane to him so he can take revenge.

* TheAlcoholic: It's not clear quite how long Maizie is held captive in Phroso's compound, but by the time Crane arrives, she is a jittering wreck of an alcoholic. A scene early in the film indicates that she might have already had a drinking problem that she is attempting to quit.