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Flesh and the Devil ()

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Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.
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Leo von Harden
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Felicitas
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Ulrich von Eltz
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Hertha
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Uncle Kutowski
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Pastor Voss
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Leo's Mother
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Count von Rhaden (as Marc MacDermott)
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Minna
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Margie Angus ...
Twin (uncredited)
Mary Angus ...
Twin (uncredited)
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Ball Guest (uncredited)
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Boy Who Dances with Hertha (uncredited)
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Leo as a Boy (uncredited)
Virginia Marshall ...
Hertha as a Girl (uncredited)
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Family Retainer with Bouquet (uncredited)
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Ulrich as a Boy (uncredited)
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Family Retainer with Flag (uncredited)
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Train Station Vendor (uncredited)
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Womens' Hat Salesman (uncredited)
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Sergeant Major (uncredited)
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Ball Guest (uncredited)
Glen Walters ...
Family Retainer (uncredited)

Directed by

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Clarence Brown

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Benjamin Glazer ... (screen play by) (as Benjamin F. Glazer)
 
Hermann Sudermann ... (from the novel "The Undying Past" by)
 
Marian Ainslee ... (titles by)
 
Hanns Kräly ... () (uncredited)
 
Frederica Sagor Maas ... () (uncredited)

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Irving Thalberg ... producer (uncredited)

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Carl Davis

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William H. Daniels ... (photographed by) (as William Daniels)

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Lloyd Nosler ... film editor

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Fredric Hope ... (settings) (as Frederic Hope)

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Liz Sutherland ... production manager: video presentation

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Charles Dorian ... assistant director

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Cedric Gibbons ... settings
Eric Rohman ... poster artist: Sweden

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Buddy Longworth ... still photographer (uncredited)
Ruth Harriet Louise ... publicity photographer (uncredited)

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André-ani ... wardrobe

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Richard Bradford ... music recordist
Carl Davis ... conductor
Peter Ernster ... dubbing assistant
Colin Matthews ... orchestrator
David Matthews ... orchestrator
Rolf Wilson ... orchestra leader

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Janice Brackenridge ... production assistant: video
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Plot Summary

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. In her room, her husband, about whom she neglected to inform Leo, comes in and challenges Leo to a duel. The duel is done, the Count is killed and Felicitas is a widow. Leo, however, is 'requested' to serve 5 years in Africa and he tells Ulrich to watch over Felicitas while he is gone. After 3 years, Ulrich is able to get a pardon for Leo and all that Leo thinks about on the way home is Felicitas. When he arrives, he learns that Felicitas has married Ulrich. Felicitas likes that Ulrich is rich and she never told Ulrich the truth about Leo and her. Leo is crushed and does not visit them, which saddens Ulrich as he does not know why. Leo tries to stay away from her, but Felicitas uses every opportunity to tempt him to return to her as her lover, creating a deadly triangle with the two lifelong friends. Written by Tony Fontana

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Taglines The Screen's Great Lover- The Screen's Great Vampire- One Great Picture- (Print Ad- Greensburg Daily Tribune, ((Greensburg, Penna.)) 5 March 1927) See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Undying Past (Belgium, English title)
  • La chair et le diable (France)
  • Es war (Germany)
  • El demonio y la carne (Spain)
  • La Chair et le Diable (Canada, French title)
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  • 112 min
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Box Office

Budget $373,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $2,748,980

Did You Know?

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Trivia Legend has it that when the two first met on the MGM back-lot, John Gilbert called, "Hello, Greta", to which Greta Garbo coolly responded, "It is Miss Garbo." Immediately smitten by this indifferent Swedish beauty, Gilbert engaged Garbo in a whirlwind romance, much to the delight of the movie-going public and the studio brass. He gladly introduced her to his business manager, Harry E. Edington, who thereafter became her salary negotiator. Once this film was released, it was so popular that Garbo could almost dictate the terms of her renewed MGM contract. With Edington's help, her salary shot from $600 per week to $2,000 per week, a figure that was contractually bound to triple in three years. Perhaps more significantly, she also gained control over the types of roles she would play in the future. This crucial development enabled her to play something besides man-eating vamps, to cultivate the Garbo mystique, a combination of sultry passion, tender innocence and cool insouciance that has made her a cinematic icon. See more »
Goofs When Leo is talking to Felicitas on the bench in the park and tells her that he must go to Africa, the position of the collar of his overcoat repeatedly changes from pulled up to flat. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972). See more »
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Quotes Pastor Voss: My boy, when the devil cannot reach us through the spirit... he creates a woman beautiful enough to reach us through the flesh.
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