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Flesh is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Wallace Beery as a German wrestler. Some of the script was written by Moss Hart and an uncredited William Faulkner, and the film was co-produced and directed by John Ford, who removed his director's credit from the picture.
Flesh: Directed by John Ford. With Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt. Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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- Drama, Romance
- John Ford
- 1932-12-08
It was Flesh (1932), directed by John Ford. When a hardboiled moll named Laura Nash (Karen Morley) is sprung from a German prison, she is given food and shelter by the burly Polakai (Wallace Beery), an easy-going waiter in a biergarten, who moonlights as a professional wrestler.
- John Ford, Dave Taggart
- Wallace Beery
Jul 26, 2020 · Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, 1932), who wrote the original story, was first slated to direct the film. Months later, Raoul Walsh (White Heat, 1949) was announced as director, who was in turn replaced by Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936), before Ford took the helm.
May 8, 2012 · John Ford directed Flesh (1932) for MGM with Wallace Beery starring as a wrestler and Karen Morley giving an outstanding performance as the girl he loves.
Sep 14, 2021 · The highly popular Wallace Beery failed to draw the huge crowds to this film as Polikai, a good-hearted German wrestler in America, with a doomed crush on released American convict Laura (Karen Morley), and trouble from mobsters.
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The story goes like this: Wallace Beery plays Polakai, a simple-minded German wrestler who spends most of his time wrestling, drinking beer, being strong manly man, and saying DATS GOOD. One day, Polakai comes across a helpless Laura Nash – an American woman who was recently released from prison in Germany – and decides to help her out.
