A former schoolteacher with extensive disfigurements, the terrible result of a car crash, is shunned by a gossiping community. A freedom fighter in medieval Scotland throws out colonialist overlords and is hung, drawn, and quartered in reprisal. Jesus Christ redeems ...

Released on 24 November 1928, with a synchronised score and sound effects, to reflect fast-paced industry innovations in the wake of The Jazz Singer (1927), Tod Browning’s West of Zanzibar is the director’s most impressively lurid work and the best ...