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Where East is East
Also known as {Where East is West}
(1929) American
B&W : Seven reels / 6683 feet
Directed by Tod Browning

Cast: Lon Chaney [Tiger Haynes], Lupe Velez [Toyo], Estelle Taylor [Madame de Sylva], Lloyd Hughes [Bobby Bailey], Louis Stern [Father Angelo], Mrs. Wong Wing [Ming]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Richard Schayer, from the adaptation by Waldemar Young of a screen story by Tod Browning and Harry Sinclair Drago. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by David Cox. Cinematography by David Cox. Intertitles by Joe Farnham. / © 15 May 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP362]. Released 4 May 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Animals: Apes, Tigers - Circuses - Families: Fatherhood - Religion: Priests - Synchronized sound film - Trappers

Listing updated: 2 November 2009.

References: Limbacher-Feature p. 273; Marrero-Vintage p. 22; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-226 p. 34; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, p. 8E : Website-AFI.