Flesh and Fantasy

Flesh and Fantasy is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duviviers previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan. Flesh and Fantasy tells three stories, unrelated but with a supernatural theme, by Oscar Wilde and Lszl Vadnay, among others. Tying together the three segments is a conversation about the occult between two clubmen, one played by humorist Robert Benchley.

Second segment The second story is based on Oscar Wildes short story Lord Arthur Saviles Crime. A palmist named Podgers Thomas Mitchell is making uncannily accurate predictions at a party for the rich and bored. He tells skeptical lawyer Marshall Tyler Edward G. Robinson to avoid a certain street intersection on the way home. The palmist also acts as if he sees more in his hand but does not admit it. Tyler eschews the advice and almost gets shot during a police chase at the intersection. Tyler goes to the palmists home. Under pressure, the palmist admits that he saw that Tyler is going to kill someone.The notion obsesses Tyler, who decides that he must kill someone, anyone, just to get it over with. He comes close to killing two people but is unable to do so. He finally meets Podgers by accident on a bridge one night, and blaming Podgers for his problem, strangles him to death in a rage. Trying to escape, Tyler is hit by a car. The accident is witnessed by the Great Gaspar Charles Boyer, a highwire artist, and it leads without pause into the third segment of the film. ........

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