I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Load of rubbish!!

Lack of good storyline.

Absolutely brilliant

Even though Tod Browning is closely associated with Lon Chaney, he was first assigned Priscilla Dean and began to weave a spell of success around her. She had come to Universal in 1917 because she was impatient with Biograph's failure to utilize her talent and by 1920 she was Universal's top female star. Often teamed with Lon Chaney, it was her performance in "The Virgin of Stamboul" that had the front office realizing they had a winning actress and from then on her stories were hand picked, mostly with Tod Browning as director.Earlier in the year Universal had scored a hit with "Drifting" so they reteamed the stars, Priscilla Dean, along with Wallace Beery and Matt Moore, as well as director Browning in "White Tiger" about a trio of international jewel thieves. Raymond Griffith was one of the crooks and all the stars as well as Browning boosted the film's prestige. Siblings Roy and Sylvia are innocent victims trapped in a brutal criminal family. When their father is killed little Roy is led to believe that his whole family is dead and he vows to have his revenge on vicious Bill Hawkes (Beery) but Sylvia has escaped and 15 years later.......The three come together at a London wax works. Hawkes, now working under the name Donelli, has a pick pocketing racket going with Sylvia, posing as his daughter, as the lure. Roy, known as "the Kid", is also on the shady side of the law as an unbeaten "Mechanical Chessman" but seeing Sylvia lift a watch he stops to admire as from one crook to another - never dreaming she is his sister!! With Browning a freak show or carnival is never far away and there are some pretty grisly wax exhibitions: someone remarks "why do you want to hang around these gruesome figures for"!!They pool their talents. Roy feels that "Donelli" looks vaguely familiar but is persuaded to team up as they try their con game in America. With Roy dazzling the idle rich with his mechanical chess man act, the others are given the run of the house where they can locate the safe etc. Hiding out in a mountain cabin Hawkes begins to sow seeds of distrust by questioning the loyalty of both Sylvia and Roy - all the while handling a box of Argentine Ant killer. Scary stuff!! Matt Moore has an ambiguous part, Roy says from the first "there's something suspicious about that guy! I don't trust him!" and he is a shadowy figure but if you have ever seen him in a movie you'll know the part he plays!!Wallace Beery looks pretty imposing with his bleached white hair but for me the stand out is Raymond Griffith. It is a pretty grim and at times far fetched story but Griffith's light touch lightens the mood. There is a scene (sort of reminiscent of "Paths to Paradise") when he is strolling around the mansion having already robbed the safe and hidden the jewels, trying to act nonchalant and put the pesky butler off the scent. Another scene has him donning glasses as becomes his role of Donelli's secretary and not being able to see a thing because of the thick lenses: it is not a slapstick routine, he is just very skillful, slightly stumbling over an obvious chair etc. Griffith pulls it all off with aplomb. Very easy to see he had been a professional dancer.Highly Recommended.

The movie starts with the death of Mike Donovan (Alfred Allen), who is watching over his two children Roy and Sylvia, whilst unbeknownst to him, the present Hawkes (Wallace Beery) is plotting against him. Roy runs outside, believing his father and sister dead, while Hawkes flees with Sylvia, who believes the same of Roy. Fifteen years later, Roy (Raymond Griffith), going by the name of The Kid, is scamming people with his mechanical chess player. Hawkes returns to England with Sylvia (Priscilla Dean) and witnesses the automaton at a wax display, and hatches a plan with Roy to take the chess player to America, where they can pull a giant scam on the upper classes. After pulling of a robbery, the trio flee to a remote cabin, where paranoia and greed start to take hold of them.Though he is now best remembered for his work in horror, most notable Dracula (1931) - arguably the greatest adaptation of the story ever made - and the excellent Freaks (1932), a macabre and twisted horror that would see itself banned for decades and tarnish the director's reputation, Tod Browning enjoyed a hugely successful and busy silent period directing, amongst others, caper films, focusing on small-time crooks and their schemes. White Tiger is one of these such films, and one of many collaborations he had with star Priscilla Dean, who was a huge star in her day, now sadly all but forgotten. The title White Tiger refers to the animal that lies inside of criminals, eating a way at them with guilt, uncertainty and paranoia, and we see this unfold in the second half on the movie as the lead trio hide out. I suspect the movie thinks itself as a window into this fascinating world, but after an entertaining first half, becomes a tedious and rather ridiculous melodrama.The print I watched of this was so old and grainy that the film would often jump, making certain scenes difficult to follow and title cards often unreadable. But should the film ever be given a re-mastering, I doubt it would do anything to improve the dullness of the film. After spending forty or so minutes setting up an intriguing story, we spend the next forty minutes in one location, where unconvincing suspicions arise about the true identity of Hawkes, and they needlessly bicker amongst themselves. It is something Browning would go on to develop further in the commercially successful The Unholy Three (1925), but White Tiger was so incoherent that it was shelved for over a year before the studio released a new edit to an underwhelming box-office.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

The name of director Tod Browning is often associated with noir. His White Tiger (1923) is available on DVD in an extremely worn but quite sharp print that seems to be missing only the end title. The evil but charismatic villain, engagingly played by Wallace Beery, joins with his supposed daughter, Priscilla Dean (not exactly over-flatteringly costumed or photographed), and hero, Raymond Griffith (playing a dramatic role here with his usual comedic skill), in robbing the rich by diverting their attention with a "mechanical" chess player. As in Browning's later Unholy Three (1925), the three crooks escape to the hills but fall out. The editing in this latter section tends to be a bit choppy, but evidently this was always the case. After completion, Universal took the editing out of Browning's hands and also saw to it that many of the inter-titles were re-written. Nonetheless, White Tiger remains a fascinating noir excursion that will delight Browning fans, despite its many unbelievable plot twists and machinations.

After their underworld father is shot down, children Raymond Griffith (as Roy Donovan) and Priscilla Dean (as Sylvia Donovan) are brought up believing each other is dead; they are separated, and raised, by other criminals. Wallace Beery (as Bill Hawkes), the "Stool Pidgeon" who played a part in her father's death, raises Ms. Dean to be an accomplished London pickpocket. Meanwhile, enterprising Mr. Griffith scams pawns as "The Mechanical Chess-player". Mr. Beery, who calls himself "Count Donelli" invites Griffith to join himself and Dean. Soon, the unholy trio travel to New York's Fifth Avenue; there, they plan their biggest heist.Tod Browning's "White Tiger" is entertainingly performed, and directed. Later in the running time, Matt Moore (as Richard Longworth) makes the troupe a fine acting quartet. The story situation requires too great a suspension of disbelief, however. You'll may wonder why Griffith and Dean don't dope things out sooner (just for starters). The "White Tiger" referred to in the title is, by the way, the criminal element that lives in the heart of the unholy criminal: "Fawning and hating the strong, ready to ravage the weak, faithless…suspicious…cruel and savage, fearing no God…trusting no man…that's White Tiger in the heart of the crook!"