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The Way of All Flesh
1927 · Victor Fleming
Left: A fragment
← The RegisterThe performance that won the first Academy Award for Best Actor.
Emil Jannings plays a bank cashier whose life comes apart in a single night. With The Last Command, it earned him the first Best Actor award the Academy ever gave.
The award survives. The film does not: only a fragment is known to exist.
If the reels were still in a can
The frame, stage by stage
0As shot
1Amber
3Bubbles
4Welded
·Today
What is leftA fragment.