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Flesh and the Devil is an American silent romantic drama film released in 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, and Barbara Kent, directed by Clarence Brown, and based on the novel The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann.
May 8, 2023 · This is a fully high definition copy of Clarence Brown's drama, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. I do not own the rights to film, nor am I profiting from it. The picture is in the...
Flesh and the Devil: Directed by Clarence Brown. With John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent. Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.
In this silent drama, lifelong school chums Leo (John Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are soldiers in the German army. Leo falls in love with Countess Felicitas (Greta Garbo) and courts her ...
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Leo von Sellenthin and Ulrich von Kletzingk, two boys who have grown up together, swear eternal friendship through a blood bond. They attend military school together, and at home on annual holiday, Leo meets the entrancing Felicitas at a ball.
Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves. Leo and Ulrich are lifelong friends. Home on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station and is awed by her beauty. They meet again at a ball and quietly leave together.
For Flesh and the Devil, which features the very first horizontal love scene and close-up, open-mouth kiss in American movie history, Daniels put heavy gauzes and filters over the lens, to make the illicit lovers shimmer in luminescence.
