Flesh (1932 film)

Infobox Film
name = Flesh


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director = John Ford (uncredited)
producer = John Ford
John W. Considine Jr.
writer = Moss Hart
William Faulkner
starring = Wallace Beery
Ricardo Cortez
Karen Morley
Jean Hersholt
music = Alfred Newman
cinematography = Arthur Edeson
editing = William S. Gray
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = flagicon|US December 8, 1932
flagicon|Finland October 29, 1933
runtime = 96 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English/German
amg_id = 1:91710
imdb_id = 0022897

"Flesh" is a 1932 black-and-white drama film directed by John Ford (uncredited) and starring Wallace Beery as a German wrestler. Some of the script was written by Moss Hart and an uncredited William Faulkner.

Cast

*Wallace Beery as Polokai
*Ricardo Cortez as Nicky
*Karen Morley as Laura
*Jean Hersholt as Mr. Herman
*John Miljan as Willard
*Herman Bing as Pepi (headwaiter)
*Vince Barnett as Karl (a waiter)
*Greta Meyer as Mrs. Herman

Trivia

*In the Coen brothers' film "Barton Fink", (1991), the title character deals with writers' block while attempting to write a screenplay for a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. At the time they wrote it, the Coens were unaware of this movie. In addition, "Barton Fink" features a character based somewhat on William Faulkner that Fink consults for help in writing the script. ["That Barton Fink Feeling": An Interview with the Brothers Coen. http://cinepad.com/coens.htm]

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