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Release Date:
May 24, 1930
Original Title:
The Song of the Flame
Alternate Titles:
A Flama
Den röda flamman
La canción de la llama
Vapauden liekki
Genres:
Music
Production Companies:
First National Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 96
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)
Adaptation:
Gordon Rigby
Assistant Director:
Ben Silvey
Costume Design:
Edward Stevenson
Director:
Alan Crosland
Director of Photography:
Lee Garmes
Editor:
Alexander Hall
Lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II
Otto A. Harbach
Music:
David Mendoza
Novel:
Oscar Hammerstein II
Otto A. Harbach
Set Decoration:
Anton Grot
Songs:
Grant Clarke
Harry Akst
Edward Ward
Herbert Stothart
George Gershwin
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