The Way of All Flesh
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.
- 6.4
- 1927
- Released
- 1h 34m
Emil Jannings
August Shilling
Belle Bennett
Mrs. Schilling
Donald Keith
August Jr.
Phyllis Haver
The Temptress
Fred Kohler
The Tough
Philippe De Lacy
August, as a child
Mickey McBan
Evald
Betsy Ann Hisle
Charlotte
Carmencita Johnson
Elizabeth
Gordon Thorpe
KarlJackie Combs
HeinrichDean Harrell
EvaldReleased
en
- #partially lost film
- #fragment
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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