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Movie Detail Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI Stub Record Flesh and the Devil Director: Clarence Brown (Dir) Release Date:   25 Dec 1926 Duration (in feet):   8,759 Duration (in reels):   9 Print this page Display Movie Summary Available Formats Facets DVD VHS LaserDisk Cast:   John Gilbert (Leo von Sellenthin)       Greta Garbo (Felicitas von Kletzingk)       Lars Hanson (Ulrich von Kletzingk)       Barbara Kent (Hertha Prochvitz)       William Orlamond (Uncle Kutowski)       George Fawcett (Pastor Brenckenburg)       Eugenie Besserer (Leo's mother)       Marc MacDermott (Count von Rhaden)       Marcelle Corday (Minna)   Summary: 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. When her husband discovers Leo with her in her boudoir, a duel is called and the husband is killed; forced into foreign service, Leo asks his friend Ulrich to console the widow. Three years later Leo is pardoned by the emperor and returns to find that Felicitas has married Ulrich. Vainly he seeks to escape her attempts to revive their former affair. Ultimately, the two men resort to a duel, each unable to fire the fatal shot. Hurrying to the scene of the duel, Felicitas falls through an ice floe to her death, removing the spell cast upon their lives and reuniting the friends.  Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures   Director: Clarence Brown (Dir)   Charles Dorian (Asst dir) Writer: Benjamin F. Glazer (Scr)   Marian Ainslee (Titles) Photography: William Daniels (Dir of photog) Film Editor: Lloyd Nosler (Film ed) Set Decoration: Cedric Gibbons (Settings)   Frederic Hope (Settings) Costumes: Andréani (Ward) Country: United States Language: English Source Text: Based on the novel Es war; Roman in zwei Bänden by Hermann Sudermann (Stuttgart, 1893). Authors: Hermann Sudermann Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 10/1/1927 dd/mm/yyyy LP23514 Physical Properties: b&w:   Si:   Genre: Romance   Subjects (Major): Courtship   Duels   Friendship   Ice floes   Infidelity   Military schools   Widows Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page Film Daily   16 Jan 1927   p. 6. MPW   15 Jan 1927    New York Times   10 Jan 1927   p. 20. Photoplay   27 Feb 1927   p. 52. Variety   12 Jan 1927   p. 14. Display Movie Summary

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