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Call of the Flesh

CALL OF THE FLESH

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CREDITS

1930, 100 minutes, B&W with Technicolor Sequences.
Director, Charles Brabin; Story, Dorothy Farnum; Screenplay, John Colton; Cinematography, Merritt B. Gerstad; Dance Direction, Eduardo Cansino.

CAST

Juan, Ramon Novarro; Maria, Dorothy Jordan; Esteban, Ernest Torrence; Mother Superior, Nance O'Neil; Lola, Renee Adoree; Enrique, Russell Hopton; La Rumbarita, Mathilde Comont.

SONGS

Just for Today; Not Quite Good Enough for Me by Herbert Stothart, Clifford Grey; Lonely by Stothart, Grey and Ramon Novarro; Vesti la Giubba by Leoncavallo; Cavatina by Donizetti; Questa o quella by Verdi.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .again placed the Mexican idol in a Spanish setting - this time as a would-be opera singer who captures the heart of convent girl Dorothy Jordan."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"Novarro's singing, and a sequence in Technicolor, were the highlights of John Colton's rather workaday script. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Money picture, but can stand a lot of cutting."
- Variety

The film was also known as The Singer from Seville.

The Technicolor sequences for Call Of The Flesh are considered lost.

This would be silent star Renee Adoree's final film.

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