Script: Original Screenplay / Scenario for the Tod Browning/Lon C haney film “West of Zanzibar”; MGM, 1928.

Metro Golden Mayer Studios. Very good. 1928. 1st edition. Scenario by Elliott Clawson . e 1 dated June 7] . o; stamped “file copy”; two-hole punched, brass brads. No. 1 666 stamped upper right corner; no. 3580 on the label. Lower righ t corner: “Script Okayed” by [producer] Mr. [Irving] Thalber g. June 14. 1928. 85 pages mimeographed in black ink. Title page integrated with first lines of text. . 28 silent film directed by Tod Browning. The screenplay concerns the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (Lionel Barrymore). The film is based on a 1 926 Broadway play called Kongo starring Walter Huston. This appea rs to be a first draft “scenario” with dialogue, no revision pages, and Chaney’s character [Phroso] yet to be named; he is r eferred to throughout as “Chaney.” Also a somewhat different ending than was filmed, with the notation on page 85: “There w ill be twenty additional scenes in which, in his effort to save t he girl, Chaney sacrifices his life and is burned upon the funera l pyre…..” The film was released in Nov 1928. . overs fair; numerous small chips along edges; 1/3 of spine paper missing. Remnants of erased pencil markings on front where someon e had written the name of the production team. Interior pages fin e; clean with no markings. .