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The Way of All Flesh

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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.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1927-10-01

Runtime: 94 mins

Director: Victor Fleming

Writer: Jules Furthman, Lajos Biró

Spoken language: No Language

Genres: Drama

Original title: The Way of All Flesh

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America

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Geronimo1967
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...
2022-06-06

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