{"id":15796,"date":"2016-07-11T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2020-08-05T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T21:06:48","slug":"west-of-zanzibar-1928-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15796","title":{"rendered":"West of Zanzibar (1928) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z071116westofzanzibar_poster_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"646\"><strong>West of Zanzibar (1928)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong>&nbsp; <span class=\"itemprop\">Todd Browning<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: &nbsp;<strong>Elliott J. Clawson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore <\/strong>and<strong> Mary Nolan <\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pitch: \u201cLet&#8217;s make a movie with Lon Chaney directed by Todd Browning!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: &#8220;A story of love and revenge in the African jungles!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A magician named Phroso [Chaney] discovers his wife has been having an affair with a man named Crane [Barrymore]. &nbsp;Phroso confronts Crane, and during their fight is thrown over a rail, breaking his back and leaving him paralyzed and alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later his wife returns only to die a short time later. &nbsp;Before she dies Phroso learns that she had a daughter and Crane is now an ivory dealer in Africa. &nbsp;Phroso heads to Africa with the child and plots his revenge. &nbsp;First his makes sure that his wife&#8217;s daughter is raised in a brothel so that she grows up to be a drug-addicted prostitute. &nbsp;Then he &nbsp;takes on the persona &#8220;Dead Legs&#8221; and over the course of nearly two decades builds his criminal empire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the time is right, Phroso brings the grown daughter to him so that he can extract his final revenge on her and Crane. &nbsp;Dark stuff, indeed and with a twist [although easily seen coming] worthy of the <em>Twilight Zone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z071116westofzanzibar_pic_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West of Zanzibar (1928) Director:&nbsp; Todd Browning Screenplay: &nbsp;Elliott J. Clawson Stars: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24144,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions\/24144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}