The Song of the Flame

The Song of the Flame 1930

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)

  • Released: 1930-05-24
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Genre: Music
  • Stars: Janina Smolinska, Bert Roach, Shep Camp, Bernice Claire, Ivan Linow, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Inez Courtney, Gregory Gaye, Alexander Gray
  • Director: Alan Crosland