Flesh and Blood

Name: Flesh and Blood
Genre: Drama
Released: 1922-08-27
Duration: 1 h 14 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery

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A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the bus... Read allA convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.

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6.2/10

213

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POPULARITY

156,258

9,022

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"Flesh and Blood" Lon Chaney 1922 Western Exploitation **I.V.

Lon Chaney and Edith Roberts in Flesh and Blood (1922)

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Chinese characters in the story are treated with exceptional humanity, given the anti-foreigner sentiments prevalent in the US when the film was made. Released in 1922, Flesh and Blood came just five years after the 1917 Immigration Act that actually prohibited immigration by Asians. Yet, in the film, Chinese characters are shown to have senses of humor and are compassionate, helpful, ingenious and secretive not out of deceit but out of survival in a hostile environment. Community leader Li Fang is praised in an inter title as being respected even by the city's police. The police nonetheless torture him, but he never breaks or betrays his friend Webster.

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David Wester's Mild Vengeance

It is well-know for centuries that the aristocracy have little moods and bouts of indecisiveness; characteristics that are even more pronounced if those aristocrats are Germans (like this Count who besides being German is also Teutonic). Anyway, these contradictions assaulted this German Count while watching "Flesh And Blood," a film directed by Herr Irving Cummings in the silent year of 1922, starring the great Amerikan actor Herr Lon Chaney.

The film depicts the story of a poor lawyer ( first contradiction or a German pun? ), David Wester ( Lon Chaney ) wrongfully incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, his conviction being the fault of a businessman, Fletcher Burton ( Ralph Lewis ) Wester escapes from jail to seek revenge on Burton.

However, aristocrat David Wester's vengeance is very soft and mild ( the convict will back down from his purpose for the sake of his daughter who is engaged to his enemy's son ) and because finally the stolen money will be used to build one of those Catholic ( not Lutherans ) missions and what's more, Wester's daughter does good works there!! isn't that enough punishment?...

Another German contradiction for this German count is that even though Wester spent 15 years in jail unjustly, he finally will not be able to clear his name and will passively return to prison; This means the bad ones wins over the honest people; of course that's what may happen in real life, even in the aristocratic life Herr Lon Chaney plays one of those villains with a noble heart, a good and sensitive man, certainly but not very ingenious, because when he was hidden in Chinatown in order to go unnoticed he disguises himself as a cripple, a kind of contortionist in crutches instead of wearing one of those typical Chinese garments. The last German contradiction: the detective Doyle ( DeWitt Jennings ) only seems able to spot Chaney's accomplice, Herr Li Fang ( Noah Beery ).

And now, if you'll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this German Count feels contrary.

Herr Graf Ferdinand Von Galitzien http://ferdinandvongalitzien.blogspot.com/

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