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Cast
Emil Jannings | ... |
August Schilling
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Belle Bennett | ... |
Mrs. Schilling
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Phyllis Haver | ... |
The Temptress
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Donald Keith | ... |
August Jr.
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Fred Kohler | ... |
The Tough
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Philippe De Lacy | ... |
August as a Child
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Mickey McBan | ... |
Evald
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Betsy Ann Hisle | ... |
Charlotte
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Carmencita Johnson | ... |
Elizabeth
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Gordon Thorpe | ... |
Karl
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Jackie Combs | ... |
Heinrich
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Dean Harrell | ... |
Evald
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Anne Sheridan |
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Nancy Drexel |
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Philip Sleeman | ... |
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
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Directed by
Victor Fleming |
Written by
Perley Poore Sheehan | ... | (story) |
Lajos Biró | ... | (adaptation) |
Jules Furthman | ... | () |
Julian Johnson | ... | (titles) |
Ernest Maas | ... | (story) (uncredited) |
Frederica Sagor Maas | ... | (story) (uncredited) |
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Victor Milner |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Henry Hathaway | ... | assistant director |
Additional Crew
Jesse L. Lasky | ... | presenter |
Adolph Zukor | ... | presenter |
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- Paramount Pictures (1927) (United States) (theatrical) (as Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1927) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1927) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Famous-Lasky Film Service (1927) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Fanamet-Film (1927) (Austria) (theatrical)
- Films Paramount (1928) (Belgium) (theatrical)
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In early-1900s Milwaukee, bank clerk August Schiller is happy with his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blonde seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakens alone in a dilapidated bedroom without the securities. He finds the woman and pleads with her to return the stolen securities. When he also threatens her, he is knocked unconscious by the saloon owner and dragged to a nearby railroad track. As the crooks strips him of his ID and papers, Schiller recovers and struggles with the saloon owner, ultimately throwing him into the path of an oncoming train, killing him. Schiller flees and, as he is about to take his own life, sees in a newspaper that he is supposedly dead. The saloon owner's mangled body had been identified as Schiller's. Twenty years pass. Schiller is now aged, unkempt, and employed to pick up trash in a park. He sees his own family go to a cemetery and place a wreath on his grave. Following other scenes in a Christmas snowstorm, Schiller makes his way to his former home, where he sees that the son whom he had taught to play violin is now a successful musician. He walks away, carrying in his pocket a dollar that his son gave him, not realizing that the old tramp was his father. Written by Anonymous |
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Taglines | "The Way of all Flesh" is grippingly human. It portrays the struggle of soul against flesh. Without a doubt, one of 1928's Finest. (Print ad- Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate, ((Newcastle, NSW)) 1 August 1928) See more » |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Emil Jannings won "Best Actor" Oscar for this film, which is the only lost Academy Award-winning performance. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011). See more » |