The first film made in the U.S. by the internationally acclaimed German actor Emil Jannings, this melodramatic account of the decline of a bourgeois bank functionary recalls the classic LAST LAUGH and prefigures THE BLUE ANGEL.
Milwaukee cashier August Schiller (Jannings) is entrusted with the task of delivering some valuable bonds to Chicago, but loses them to seductress Mayme (Phyllis Haver). He meets her on the train, and when they get to Chicago she gets him drunk in a cafe, persuades him to accompany her to a hotel,
and then robs him. Schiller tries to put things right the next morning, retracing his steps and confronting Mayme in the cafe. But her lover an...
Released:
1927
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins