West of ZanzibarOne of Browning's lesser known films, West of Zanzibaris adapted from the Broadway play Kongo.
A British music-hall magician is paralysed in a tussle with his wife's lover and moves to Africa where he transforms himself into the disturbing 'Dead-Legs', a jungle emperor darkly realised by the inimitable Lon Chaney (The Phantom of the Opera).
Sweating through the passing years in Conradian madness, repressed sexual rage and incestuous desire, 'Dead-Legs' drives the film to a climax of revenge.
With Lionel Barrymore and Warner Baxter.
