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The Song of the Flame

The Song of the Flame

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  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

May 24, 1930

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Music

Original Title

The Song of the Flame

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Director

Alan Crosland

Description

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)