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Where East Is East is a 1929 film directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney.

"Tiger" Haynes (Chaney) is a big-game animal trapper in French Indochina, in the area that would later become Laos. He has a beloved daughter, the half-Asian Toyo (Lupe Velez). A young American, Bobby Bailey, is in Indochina to take custody of Tiger's tigers and take them back to his father's circus. Bobby and Toyo have fallen in love. Tiger the Papa Wolf dad is initially against the relationship but good-natured Bobby wins his trust.

Enter Madame de Sylva, an older Asian woman with a rapacious sexual appetite. She sees handsome young Bobby on a riverboat and nearly succeeds in seducing him before a horrified Tiger yanks Bobby off the boat. When an angry Bobby accuses Tiger of jealousy, Tiger drops the bomb: Madame de Sylva is Toyo's long-lost mother.

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Tenth and last film which Browning and Chaney collaborated on; Chaney would make only two more movies before he died of cancer in 1930.

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