Mar 28th
Flesh and the Devil**
(US 1926)
A dashing aristocratic soldier falls in love with an enigmatic Countess who threatens to tear his life apart.
Rank romantic melodrama from Metro, superlatively mounted with visual imagination despite its decades old plot (even then) and some clunky intertitles. It cemented the enigmatic beauty and mystery of Garbo onto the world stage, and most notably began her on and off screen love affair with John Gilbert.
Written by: Benjamin Glazer, from the novel "The Undying Past" by Hermann Sudermann.
Producer: Irving Thalberg.
Director: Clarence Brown.
Starring: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, George Fawcett, Eugenie Besserer, Marc McDermott.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music Composer/Conductor: Carl Davis.
Flesh and the Devil**
(US 1926)
A dashing aristocratic soldier falls in love with an enigmatic Countess who threatens to tear his life apart.
Rank romantic melodrama from Metro, superlatively mounted with visual imagination despite its decades old plot (even then) and some clunky intertitles. It cemented the enigmatic beauty and mystery of Garbo onto the world stage, and most notably began her on and off screen love affair with John Gilbert.
Written by: Benjamin Glazer, from the novel "The Undying Past" by Hermann Sudermann.
Producer: Irving Thalberg.
Director: Clarence Brown.
Starring: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, George Fawcett, Eugenie Besserer, Marc McDermott.
Photography: William Daniels.
Music Composer/Conductor: Carl Davis.
FLESH AND THE DEVIL. If ever there was a potent sight of an on-screen love affair, then it was between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
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