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Mood:
- EmotionalTouching
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Plot:
- Supportive SpouseIntrospectionAmbitionLove and RomanceCouplesFamily RelationsImmigrantsWriter's Life more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20s20th Century
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Place:
- GermanyPrison
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Style:
- Campy
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Look:
- B&W
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Flesh, 1932
English, German
USA
Profile of Flesh
Flesh can be described as emotional and touching. The plot revolves around a supportive spouse, introspection, and ambition. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, Flesh campy humor. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a prison. Flesh is located in Germany. It takes place in the 1920s. Visually, it is black and white.
Summary of Flesh
Flesh was one of the few big-studio films to deal with the subject of professional wrestling--at least until Hulk Hogan came along in the 1980s. Wallace Beery stars as a thickheaded waiter in a German beer garden who uses his muscles to clear out rowdy patrons. Beery channels his strength into a wrestling career, grappling his way up to the championship. His wife Karen Morley enjoys the creature comforts of Beery's success, but her heart belongs to her ex-lover Ricardo Cortez, and soon Karen is stepping out on her husband. Beery finds out and exacts a terrible revenge on Cortez--just minutes after Karen wises up and realizes she loves Beery after all. John Ford directed Flesh in a heavy Germanic fashion reminiscent of the Emil Jannings "cuckolded husband" melodramas of the 1920s.
Details
| Language: | English, German |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 8 December 1932 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
Cast and Crew
as Polakai
as Nicky
as Laura
as Mr. Herman
