FLESH AND THE DEVIL

(1926, Clarence Brown) Husband Lars Hanson and lover John Gilbert duel in silhouette at dawn over Garbo — with a chilling conclusion. Garbo’s first picture with her favorite director and co-star rocketed to the top of MGM’s B.O. charts and began a legendary on- and off-screen love affair.

REVIEWS

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"Memorable for its beautifully re-created Austrian atmosphere and for the extraordinary communion service scene in which Garbo turns the chalice so that her lips will touch the spot from which her lover drank."
– Georges Sadoul

"Garbo was a blissfully beautiful 21 at the time, and no other actress went at the bodies of her leading men the way she did."
– Pauline Kael

"Renowned for its electric love scenes... Garbo is as luminous as ever, thanks to William Daniels' camerawork."
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)

"A melodrama of frustrated desire played out in an endless succession of sumptuously curtained boudoirs...
Established Greta Garbo as the silent era's most alluring enigma."
– Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader