Movie1926·US·1h 52min

Flesh and the Devil

Name: Flesh and the Devil
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1926-12-25T00:00:00Z
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 7.16
Cast: John Gilbert, Clarence Brown, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent

Passion ran like wine in their blood!

Drama Romance

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Premiere

Dec1926

Studio

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Box office×1.76

Budget$373,000

Gross$658,000

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Synopsis

Flesh and the Devil (1926) — watch online on iFILM — is a silent melodrama directed by Clarence Brown for MGM. Lifelong friends Leo and Ulrich swear loyalty as boys. Then Leo meets Felicitas at a party — married, unattainable, and impossible to forget.

A duel earns Leo a three-year military exile. He comes back to find Ulrich has married her. The film squeezes friendship, desire and betrayal into a tight triangle with no comfortable exit. Greta Garbo is the reason to watch: commanding and deliberately seductive, she made audiences forget they were reading title cards. Her real-life romance with co-star John Gilbert was already underway during filming, and the camera caught something the script alone could not have written. Stream Flesh and the Devil (1926) on iFILM.

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