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Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning’s lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan.
When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the ivory trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) 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!
Original Release
11/24/1928
US Release
11/24/1928
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Lon Chaney | Phroso / Phroso 'Dead-Legs' |
Lionel Barrymore | Crane |
Mary Nolan | Maizie |
Warner Baxter | Doc |
Jacqueline Gadsdon | Anna |
Tiny Ward | Tiny |
Kalla Pasha | Babe |
Curtis Nero | Bumbu |
Chaz Chase | Music Hall Performer |
Rose Dione | Zanzibar Club Owner |
Directors
Writers
Elliott J. Clawson, Chester M. De Vonde, Joseph Farnham, Kilbourn Gordon, Waldemar Young
Cast
Name | Character |
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Lon Chaney | Phroso / Phroso 'Dead-Legs' |
Lionel Barrymore | Crane |
Mary Nolan | Maizie |
Warner Baxter | Doc |
Jacqueline Gadsdon | Anna |
Tiny Ward | Tiny |
Kalla Pasha | Babe |
Curtis Nero | Bumbu |
Chaz Chase | Music Hall Performer |
Rose Dione | Zanzibar Club Owner |
Louise Emmons | Old Woman on Street |
Fred Gamble | Vaudeville Comedian |
Emmett King | Stage Manager |
Dick Sutherland | Cannibal |
Edna Tichenor | Dancing Girl in Zanzibar Club |
Art Winkler | Stagehand |
Dan Wolheim | Zanzibar Club Customer |
Zalla Zarana | Woman in Zanzibar Bar |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tod Browning | Producer |
Irving Thalberg | Producer |