The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

WHICH DID HE CHOOSE?...the Kiss of LOVE..the call of home and family...or the kiss of LUST..the law of the bright lights?

1940 · 86 min · ★ 4.6 · Romance, Crime, Drama

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

Directed by Louis King · Written by Lenore J. Coffee

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Akim Tamiroff Paul Kriza
Gladys George Anna Kriza
William Henry Paul Kriza Jr.
Muriel Angelus Mary Brown
Berton Churchill Reginald L. Morten
Roger Imhof Franz Henzel
James Seay Varno
Douglas Kennedy Timothy
Norma Gene Nelson Mitzi as a Child
Tommy Bupp Timothy as a Child
June Hedin Julie as a Child
Darryl Hickman Victor as a boy

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