Flesh is a 1932 black-and-white drama film
starring Wallace Beery as a German wrestler.
Some of the script was written by Moss Hart
and an uncredited William Faulkner.
Flesh like other Ford movies of the time,
was made after Duke's meeting with the director.
They featured Ward Bond,
and others of the emerging John Ford Stock Company.
so it is also possible therefore, that Duke may have been involved
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10 December 2006 | by abbybritton
This film ... which no one seems to admire but me ... I believe to be one of the finest, touching, moving films I know. I do not believe that Beery plays Polaki as "half-witted" ... I believe his performance is so subtle that he comes across as much closer to "child-like", and so much more endearing. The script is tight. The photography much better than average. Sets are well decorated, lighting is fine. While some may consider the ending to be ambiguous, I do not. I think that Laura waits for him, and they "live happily ever after." But, to have shown that would have degraded to film from representing genuine "seniment" to the too-often-used "sentimentality." The character Laura is quite 'real' ... we've all know women like her. Can't understand why no one seems to recognize its fine aspects.