Sparks fly on screen and off in the silent picture melodrama “Flesh and the Devil.” John Gilbert and Greta Garbo portray a couple in love, as they were in real life, in this classic movie from director Clarence Brown, with a well-written screenplay by Benjamin Glazer.
Director Brown made a surprisingly well-paced movie, especially for a silent picture that is nearly two hours in length. An interesting feature of the silent movies is how much acting relied on facial expression and physical movement.
Many silent film stars careers collapsed with the advent of talkies in 1927 because of their inability to perform in pictures with sound. Such was the case with Gilbert. His career was over by 1930. Greta Garbo, however, continued on to even loftier heights after this change in the picture business.
“Flesh and the Devil” was successful at the box office for producer Irving Thalberg and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
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My Review
Sparks fly on screen and off in the silent picture melodrama “Flesh and the Devil.” John Gilbert and Greta Garbo portray a couple in love, as they were in real life, in this classic movie from director Clarence Brown, with a well-written screenplay by Benjamin Glazer.
Director Brown made a surprisingly well-paced movie, especially for a silent picture that is nearly two hours in length. An interesting feature of the silent movies is how much acting relied on facial expression and physical movement.
Many silent film stars careers collapsed with the advent of talkies in 1927 because of their inability to perform in pictures with sound. Such was the case with Gilbert. His career was over by 1930. Greta Garbo, however, continued on to even loftier heights after this change in the picture business.
“Flesh and the Devil” was successful at the box office for producer Irving Thalberg and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.