Where East Is East

Where East Is East

Director: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
, Estelle Taylor
Estelle Taylor
, Lupe Velez
Lupe Velez
, Lloyd Hughes
Lloyd Hughes
Tod Browning
Where East Is East

Where East Is East

Director: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
, Estelle Taylor
Estelle Taylor
, Lupe Velez
Lupe Velez
, Lloyd Hughes
Lloyd Hughes
Tod Browning

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Overview

Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face covered with hideous scars (convincingly applied with nonflexible collodion), Chaney is cast as weather-beaten animal trapper Tiger Haynes, at present living and working in Indochina. Haynes' loving relationship with his nubile half-caste daughter Toyo (Lupe Velez) is threatened by the return of Toyo's scheming mother, Madame Da Sylva (Estelle Taylor). Still harboring a grudge against Tiger, the Madame decides to get even by stealing Toyo's sweetheart Bobby (Lloyd Hughes) away from her. The villainess also intends to destroy Haynes by turning his animal "pets" against him. But the Madame is herself destroyed by Haynes' loyal gorilla, who in a gruesome (but largely unseen) finale tears the viperish woman apart. A typically morbid entry in the Chaney-Browning series, Where East is East may elicit more laughs than chills when seen today.

Product Details

Release Date: 05/24/2012
UPC: 0883316485279
Original Release: 1929
Rating: NR
Source: Warner Archives
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language: English
Time: 1:06:00
Sales rank: 44,739

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Lon Chaney Tiger
Estelle Taylor Mme. de Sylva
Lupe Velez Toyo
Lloyd Hughes Bobby
Louis Stern Father Angelo
Mrs. Wong Wing Ming,Ming
Duke Kahanamoku Wild Anirnal Trainer
Louis Stem Father Angelo
Willie Fung Servant

Technical Credits
Tod Browning Director,Screenwriter
Irving Thalberg Producer
Hunt Stromberg Producer
Richard Schayer Screenwriter
Waldemar Young Screenwriter
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