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West of Zanzibar
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })West of Zanzibar is a 1928 silent film starring the Man of a Thousand Faces, Lon Chaney. Here, Chaney plays Phroso, a stage magician, whose wife Anna has fallen in love with another man, Crane (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 the origional Bela Lugosi Dracula. It was an adaptation of a stage play called Kongo, and was remade in 1932 as the talking film Kongo.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Best Served Cold: Phroso's revenge plot involves waiting until Crane's lost daughter Maizie has reached adulthood, and bringing her into debauchery and alcoholism before presenting her to Crane as a ruined woman. The plan goes awry. | |
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The Alcoholic: 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 apparently already had a drinking problem that she was attempting to quit. | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Phroso's big magic trick, shown in the opening scene—putting his wife in a coffin, only to flip around the false bottom and reveal a skeleton—comes in handy at the end, when he uses it to facilitate Maizie's escape. | |
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The Chessmaster: Phroso manipulates almost every single character in the film as pawns in his grand revenge plan. | |
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Your Son All Along / int_1008acbd |
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