The Way of All Flesh (1927)
Drama | 1 October 1927
Director:
Victor FlemingWriters:
Jules Furthman, Lajos BiroCinematographer:
Victor MilnerProduction Company:
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.Emil Jannings received the first Best Actor Academy Award, in part for his work on this film and for his performance in The Last Command (see entry).
Voted one of the “Top Best Features” of 1927 by the 1929 Film Daily Year Book, as reported in the Feb 7, 1930 FD.
Paramount remade The Way of All Flesh in 1940, directed by Louis King and starring Akim Tamirof and Gladys George (see entry). The 1940 film does not credit the Perley Poore Sheehan story as a source, but instead credits Jules Furthman and Lajos Biro with story. It is possible that Sheehan's story was written directly for the screen and never published as a short story. ...
Emil Jannings received the first Best Actor Academy Award, in part for his work on this film and for his performance in The Last Command (see entry).
Voted one of the “Top Best Features” of 1927 by the 1929 Film Daily Year Book, as reported in the Feb 7, 1930 FD.
Paramount remade The Way of All Flesh in 1940, directed by Louis King and starring Akim Tamirof and Gladys George (see entry). The 1940 film does not credit the Perley Poore Sheehan story as a source, but instead credits Jules Furthman and Lajos Biro with story. It is possible that Sheehan's story was written directly for the screen and never published as a short story.
The world of bank cashier August Schiller centers chiefly on his patient wife and six children, and he prides himself on being an ideal father, a faithful worker, and a loyal husband. For the first time since his honeymoon, August leaves Milwaukee to deliver some bonds in Chicago, and on the train he innocently becomes involved with Mayme, an adventuress. She seduces him and during a drunken revel steals his bonds; her lover, The Tough, and his gang beat him and attempt to take his watch, but August in his fury grapples with The Tough, who is killed by a passing train. August changes clothing with The Tough and is reported as having died a hero's death defending his employer's trust. Years later, a broken derelict, he learns that his oldest son has become a famous violinist, and he hoards to buy a gallery seat at a concert. He follows the boy home on Christmas Day, catching furtive glimpses of his happy family, who fail to recognize ...
The world of bank cashier August Schiller centers chiefly on his patient wife and six children, and he prides himself on being an ideal father, a faithful worker, and a loyal husband. For the first time since his honeymoon, August leaves Milwaukee to deliver some bonds in Chicago, and on the train he innocently becomes involved with Mayme, an adventuress. She seduces him and during a drunken revel steals his bonds; her lover, The Tough, and his gang beat him and attempt to take his watch, but August in his fury grapples with The Tough, who is killed by a passing train. August changes clothing with The Tough and is reported as having died a hero's death defending his employer's trust. Years later, a broken derelict, he learns that his oldest son has become a famous violinist, and he hoards to buy a gallery seat at a concert. He follows the boy home on Christmas Day, catching furtive glimpses of his happy family, who fail to recognize him.
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