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The Way of All Flesh
(1927) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Victor Fleming

Cast: Emil Jannings [August Schilling], Belle Bennett [Mrs. Schilling], Phyllis Haver [the temptress], Donald Keith [August Schilling Jr.], Fred Kohler [tough guy], Philippe De Lacy [August, as child], Mickey McBan [Evald], Betsy Ann Hisle [Charlotte], Carmencita Johnson [Elizabeth], Gordon Thorpe [Karl], Jackie Coombs [Heinrich], Dean Harrell, Anne Sheridan, Nancy Drexel

[?] Paramount Pictures Corporation? production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by [?] Jules Furthman?, from [?] an adaptation by Lajos Biró? of a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Intertitles by Julian Johnson. Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / Premiere 25 June 1927 in New York, New York. General release 1 October 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost : The UCLA Film and Television Archive holds approximately five minutes of extant footage from the film.

Listing updated: 20 May 2005.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 258, 297; Kael-Kiss p. 240; Kerr-Silent p. 8; Sarris-Sternberg p. 16; Sweeney-Coming pp. 106, 115; Vermilye-Twenties p. 186 : ClasIm-305 p. 55 : Website-IMDb.

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