The Way of All Flesh (1927)
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
- Victor Fleming
- Henry Hathaway
- Jules Furthman
- Perley Poore Sheehan
- Lajos Biró
- Lajos Biró
Rating: 6.9/10 by 5 users
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United States of America
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Runtime: 01 hour 34 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: partially lost film, fragment
Nowadays, it beggars belief that a mere two fragments amounting to less than two minutes of this film survive. Perhaps someone, somewhere, has a dusty film can stored in an out-building on the Paramount lot? As it is, what we still have illustrates a soupçon of the talents of the Oscar winning Jannings and of a violinist he watches from the seats of a theatre in this tale of a man who suffers hard times after falling victim to a gal and a crook depriving him of his job, his family and his dignity. It is a good story, and I really do hope someone turns up a copy one day...
