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The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 film that was written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film was directed by Victor Fleming.
The film is a melodrama starring Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett and Phyllis Haver. Jannings won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance.
No known copies of this film survive.
The movie was remade in 1940, starring Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George and William Henry.
The Way of All Flesh is also a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler.
