The Way of All Flesh (1927)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Victor Fleming

Writers:

Perley Poore Sheehan (story) and
Lajos Biró (adaptation)

Release Date:

1 October 1927 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Lost Film | Children

Awards:

Won Oscar.

Cast

Emil Jannings	...	August Schilling
Belle Bennett	...	Mrs. Schilling
Phyllis Haver	...	The Temptress
Donald Keith	...	August, junior
Fred Kohler	...	The Tough
Philippe De Lacy	...	August, as a child
Mickey McBan	...	Evald
Betsy Ann Hisle	...	Charlotte
Carmencita Johnson	...	Elizabeth
Gordon Thorpe	...	Karl
Jackie Combs	...	Heinrich
Dean Harrell
Anne Sheridan
Nancy Drexel

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

In her autobiography, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim A Writer in Early Hollywood", Frederica Sagor claims that the original screenplay for this film was written by her husband, Ernest Maas. The story - of a man who abandons his family - was loosely based on Ernest's own father, who had an affair with his sister-in-law and destroyed two families in the process. As a fellow German-American, and working in the nascent film industry, Ernest knew Emil Jannings personally and gave him a copy of the original screenplay. Later, he learned that Jannings had taken it to another director (and studio) and they'd stolen it; this was common in the early film industry.

Movie Connections:

Remade as The Way of All Flesh (1940)

the last part of the movie The Way of all Flesh

I saw this movie when I was a very young boy prior to WW2 I believe that I was nine at the time. For some reason this movie has followed throughout my life, it made a great impression on me. Especially the last scene when the dad was watching his family through the window of their home at Xmas time and it was snowing, the local cop caught him went to the door and asked the mans wife {whom she did not recognize] what she wanted him to do with the man. She then asked the man if he would like to come in and have some {I think it was a pudding or something like that} and he stated no thank you I had a wife that used to make that. he then walked away and disappeared walking off into the snowy night. The movie was great to bad it no longer exists.