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Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Swamp Is Wholesome Compared To You

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Suck Lemons

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Even As Eve (1920)

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West of Zanzibar (1928)

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Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) The Swamp Is Wholesome Compared To You Having sent an assistant in a goofy mask to frighten the simple natives, Walter Huston as crippled ivory trader Flint abuses Virginia Bruce as Ann, the daughter of a rival whom he snatched years earlier from a convent school, his mistress Lupe Velez asking mercy, in MGM’s nasty pre-Code Kongo, 1932.

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Suck Lemons Joining the first conversation between crippled vengeful African ivory trader-bandit Flint (Walter Huston) and drunken/addicted doctor Kingsland (Conrad Nagel), joined by his crony Cookie (Forrester Harvey), and his mistress (Lupe Velez), hatching a plot, in MGM’s Kongo, 1932.

Kongo (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Ever Seen Such An Adonis? Opening MGM’s pre-Code dark jungle revenge-exploitation drama, Walter Huston is Flint, with aides Cookie and Hogan (Forrester Harvey, Mitchell Lewis) Lupe Velez his mistress Tula, his motives not yet clear but his character well-drawn, William Cowen directing, in Kongo, 1932.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) You Poor Blind Idiot Opening scenes, magician Flint (Lon Chaney) is alarmed to learn that his wife and assistant (Jacqueline Gadsdon) plans to leave him for sly African ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Gold Of The Congo Spooky voodoo in Africa mystifies ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who doesn't yet know that his old enemy Crane (Lon Chaney), supported by "Doc" (Warner Baxter), has hunted him down seeking revenge, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) There's Nothing Too Low Doc (Warner Baxter) can't understand why his boss, magician-turned African ivory hijacker Flint (Lon Chaney), is so cruel to his apparent captive Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be his unfaithful wife's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

West Of Zanzibar (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Made A Terrible Wreck Now legless ex-magician Flint (Lon Chaney), come to Africa to get even with ivory trader Crane (Lionel Barrymore), who stole his now-deceased wife, confronts him with Maizie (Mary Nolan), whom he believes to be Crane's illegitimate daughter, in Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar, 1928.

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