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Tod Browning's UnderworldFilm 10 of 10
Where East Is East
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Tod Browning, MGM, May 1929: the tenth and last film he made with Lon Chaney. Chaney is Tiger Haynes, an animal trapper in French Indochina, marked by the work. Lupe Velez is his daughter Toyo; Lloyd Hughes is Bobby Bailey, the circus owner's son she wants. Estelle Taylor is Madame de Sylva, the mother who left them and now sets herself at the boy. Silent picture with a synchronized score, seventy minutes in the AFI listing. Chaney's penultimate silent role. The studio jungle and the yellowface casting are the film's idea of the East.
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The last silent of the partnership and, for once, Chaney is the decent one. Tiger Haynes, a trapper marked by the work, and Estelle Taylor as the mother who comes back for her daughter's fiancé. A studio Indochina, yellowface, and a gorilla for the last reel. The disguise this time is a scar, and it is honest.
Lon Chaney: The Man of a Thousand Faces
The last of ten with Browning and the penultimate silent. Tiger Haynes is a trapper marked by the work, and for once the scars are honest and the man is decent. Estelle Taylor brings the venom. A gorilla for the finish. Within a year he was dead of throat cancer.
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