White Tiger (Silent) (DVD)

Tod Browning, the renowned director best known for the classic motion pictures Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932), created the atmospheric and disturbing White Tiger in 1923, a Carl Laemmle Universal Jewel production. Two years later he would achieve international acclaim directing Lon Chaney in The Unholy Three, the first in a series of offbeat but highly regarded films which would include The Unknown (1927), London After Midnight (1927) and West of Zanzibar (1928).

Count Donelli, assisted by his beautiful daughter, Sylvia, and his accomplice, Roy Donovan, steals a fortune in gems from a wealthy clergyman. Wanted by the police, the trio retreats to a remote mountain cabin. A deep fog of mistrust descends on the cabin and the three become unhinged, as each crook suspects his partners of scheming to make off with the treasure. The unbearable tension finally erupts, unleashing shocking revelations, retribution and murder.

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