Music · United States of America · 1930 · 1h 36m

The Song of the Flame

The Song of the Flame poster
Director
Alan Crosland
Cast
Alexander Gray as Prince Volodya Bernice Claire as Aniuta, The Flame Noah Beery as Konstantin Alice Gentle as Natasha Bert Roach as Count Boris Inez Courtney as Grusha
Crew
Lee Garmes — Director of Photography Alexander Hall — Editor Oscar Hammerstein II — Novel Otto A. Harbach — Novel Edward Stevenson — Costume Design
Synopsis

This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)

Mood & Themes
revolutionloss of virginitypre-code
Key Collaborators
Alan Crosland Director Lee Garmes Director of Photography Alexander Hall Editor Oscar Hammerstein II Novel Otto A. Harbach Novel Edward Stevenson Costume Design
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