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{{short description|1914 silent drama film by Floyd Martin Thornton}}
{{Other uses|The World, the Flesh and the Devil (disambiguation){{!}}The World, the Flesh and the Devil}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The World, The Flesh and the Devil
| image          =
| caption        =
| director       = [[F. Martin Thornton]]
| producer       = [[Charles Urban]]
| writer         = Laurence Cowen
| starring       = Frank Esmond<br>Stella St. Audrie<br>Warwick Wellington
| music          =
| cinematography =
| distributor    = [[Natural Color Kinematograph Company]]
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1914|4|9}}
| runtime        = 50 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
}}
'''''The World, the Flesh and the Devil''''' is a 1914 British [[silent film|silent]] [[drama film]]. Now considered a [[lost film]],{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} it was made using the [[additive color]] [[Kinemacolor]] process.
The title comes from the [[Litany]] in the [[Book of Common Prayer (1662)|1662 ''Book of Common Prayer'']]: "From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil, spare us, good Lord."{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}
==Plot==
A very miserable woman hatches a plot to switch the babies of a poor family and a rich family. But the nurse hired to pull off this transfer refuses to go through with it, leaving each baby with its proper family.  When the babies are grown, the man from the poor family (who has been led to believe that he did come from the rich family) goes to the house of the other and throws him out. The remainder of the film deals with the frustrations of mistaken identity.
==Cast==
* Frank Esmond – Nicholas Brophy
* Stella St. Audrie – Caroline Stanger
* Warwick Wellington – Sir James Hall
* Charles Carter – Rupert Stanger / Dyke
* Rupert Harvey – Robert Hall
* [[Jack Denton]] – George Grigg
* Gladys Cunningham – Mrs. Brophy
* Frances Midgeley – Gertrude Grant
* [[Mercy Hatton]] – Lady Hall
* [[H. Agar Lyons]] – The Devil
* Nell Carter – Beatrice Cuthbert
* Frank Stather – Inspector Toplin
* Roger Hamilton – Wylde
==Release==
It premièred at the [[Weston's Music Hall#Holborn Empire|Holborn Empire]], [[High Holborn]], London, on 9 April 1914 as part of a Kinemacolor season.<ref>{{cite web|title=Programme for the Kinemacolor Season at the Holborn Empire |url=https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8227124/programme-for-the-kinemacolor-season-at-the-holborn-empire-programme |website=Science Museum Group |accessdate=4 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb title |id=tt0004837 |title=The World, the Flesh and the Devil}}</ref> It was one of the first natural colour feature films, preceded by ''[[With Our King and Queen Through India]]'' released in February 1912, and ''[[Making of the Panama Canal]]'', also released in 1912.
==See also==
* [[List of early color feature films]]
* [[List of lost films]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0004837|The World, The Flesh and the Devil}}
* {{Amg movie|117745|The World, The Flesh and the Devil}}
{{Floyd Martin Thornton}}
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