The Way of All Flesh
Synopsis
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.
Main Cast
Emil Jannings
August Shilling
Belle Bennett
Mrs. Schilling
Donald Keith
August Jr.
Phyllis Haver
The Temptress
Fred Kohler
The Tough
Philippe De Lacy
August, as a child
Mickey McBan
Evald
Betsy Ann Hisle
Charlotte
Carmencita Johnson
Elizabeth
Gordon Thorpe
Karl
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
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...
