Desc: The World and the Flesh: Directed by John Cromwell. With George Bancroft, Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray, George E. Stone. During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ultimatum: give in to him or her friends will face the firing squad.