West of Zanzibar (1928)

Directors

Tod Browning

Cast

Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter

The story

thumb|thumbtime=20|West of Zanzibar (1928) Anna cannot bring herself to tell her professional magician husband, The Great Phroso, that she is leaving him. Her lover, an ivory trader named Crane, informs Phroso that he is taking Anna away with him to Africa, and when an argument ensues, Crane pushes the distraught husband away from him so forcefully that he falls over a railing and is crippled, losing the use of his legs. After leaving the hospital, Phroso learns to get around the neighborhood by propelling himself on a small wooden platform.

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