Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Lon Chaney, Noah Beery, Edith Roberts and De Witt Jennings. The film originally had a color flashback scene with Chinese actors, but the color footage is no longer in any of the available prints.<ref>American Film Institute Catalogue, 1921-1930</ref> The film's working titles were Prison and Fires of Vengeance''. Interior scenes were shot at Universal Studios. The popular song, "Just a Song at Twilight" is featured prominently in the film, and was usually performed by the accompanists as the main musical theme for the film. Due to an oversight, the film was never properly copyrighted. The film was rereleased theatrically in 1927. A print of the film is held at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. A still exists showing Lon Chaney visiting his daughter at the mission (see plot) Synopsis The movie features an interesting setting in San Francisco's Chinatown. David Webster (Lon Chaney) escapes from prison, where he has been incarcerated for 15 years for a crime he never committed, to see his wife and his daughter (Edith Roberts). He plans to force Fletcher Burton (Ralph Lewis), the man who framed him, to sign a confession exonerating himself. But he learns that his wife has died and his daughter now works in a local mission aiding the poor. Webster visits the girl at the mission without revealing he is her father (she thinks her father is dead) and is moved to tears by her beauty and kindness