The Way of All Flesh

1940
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1h 26m

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Muriel Angelus, Gladys George, and Akim Tamiroff in The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is ta... Read allPaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy prey by a con-game gang, and accomplice Mary Brown proves that he certainly i... Read allPaul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy prey by a con-game gang, and accomplice Mary Brown proves that he certainly is. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he has been robbed of the securities, an... Read all

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Denver Thursday 20 August 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9) and in Seattle Thursday 3 September 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).

Connections
Remake of The Way of All Flesh (1927)

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I saw The Way of All Flesh when I was about 8 years old. I always called it "The Man Without A Home". It was such a tear jerker that I thought my mom would need a rowboat to get out of the theater.

The most poignant scene, as I recall, was when the father trudges towards his home through the snow on Xmas eve, looks in the window and sees his entire family sitting around the Xmas tree, reminiscing about their father, worshiping his soul (they all believed he died many years ago, as seen in the film). Instead of breaking the bubble, and trying to gain entry, the father turns away and goes back away from the house. This may have been the final scene.

It is really sad that this movies is not available on VHS or DVD. I would have loved to see it. I agree that because the movie did not have any big-name stars to draw a wide audience, it slipped away.

Could you imagine the tidal wave a pairing of "The Way of All Flesh" and "Stella Dallas" would cause?

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