West of Zanzibar
By: a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; story by Chester de Vonde & Kilbourn Gordon ; scenario by Elliott Clawson ; adaptation by Waldemar Young ; produced and directed by Tod Browning
Contributors: Chaney, Lon, 1883-1930; Barrymore, Lionel, 1878-1954; Nolan, Mary, 1905-1948; Baxter, Warner, 1889-1951; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Series: WB Archive collection; Archive collection
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burbank, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Drama; Fathers and daughters; Magicians; Revenge
Description: When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane, a Limehouse magician named Phroso vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while 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, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn Crane's daughter alive!
Notes: Title from container.

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.

Originally produced as a silent motion picture in 1929.

Titles, Joe Farnham ; photography, Percy Hilburn ; editing, Harry Reynolds.

Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Lee Nolan, Warner Baxter.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD-R ; full-screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

Silent film with original music score.