The Way of All Flesh (1927)

Directors

Victor Fleming

Cast

Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Fred Kohler, Philippe De Lacy

The story

In the story, which opens in the early 1900s with August Schiller, a bank clerk in Milwaukee who is happy with both his job and his family. But when bank officials ask him to transport $1,000 in securities to Chicago, he meets a blond seductress on the train, who sees what he is carrying. She flirts with him, convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon run by a crook.

Genres

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