The Way of All Flesh (1927)
1h 34m | PG-13
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.
Director: Victor Fleming
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Emil Jannings
as August Shilling
Belle Bennett
as Mrs. Schilling
Donald Keith
as August Jr.
Phyllis Haver
as The Temptress
Fred Kohler
as The Tough
Philippe De Lacy
as August, as a child
Reviews
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...