Release Date

26 May, 1928

Runtime

01:10: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The successor to "The Way of All Flesh"---and a worthy one! Jannings' third American-made picture -- and twice as good as the first!

"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.

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Actors

Emil Jannings

Fay Wray

Olga Baclanova

Ernest W. Johnson

George Kotsonaros

John Gough

Johnnie Morris

John Burdette

Crew

Edgar G. Ulmer

Benjamin Glazer

Josef von Sternberg

Chandler Sprague

Julian Johnson

Mauritz Stiller

George Nichols Jr.

Bert Glennon