Drama · United States of America · 1923 · 1h 10m

The Flame of Life

Director

Cast

Priscilla Dean as Joan Lowrie Robert Ellis as Fergus Derrick Kathryn McGuire as Alice Barholm Wallace Beery as Don Lowrie Fred Kohler as Spring Beatrice Burnham as Liz

Crew

Elliott J. Clawson — Writer Frances Hodgson Burnett — Novel

Synopsis

Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −

Key Collaborators

Hobart Henley Director Elliott J. Clawson Writer Frances Hodgson Burnett Novel

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