West of Zanzibar

When magician Phroso's beloved wife, Anna, leaves him for ivory merchant Crane, the two men fight and Phroso is left paralyzed from the waist down. After Anna's sudden death, Phroso takes revenge on Crane by spiriting Anna's baby away to Africa, where he rears her in a brothel and keeps her enslaved with drugs. But when Crane and Phroso -- now known as ''Dead-Legs'' Flint -- meet again after 18 years, Crane delivers some shocking news.