The Song of the Flame

The Song of the Flame

96 mins | Music | May 24, 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)

The Song of the Flame

96 mins | Music | May 24, 1930

The Song of the Flame
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)
Producers First National Pictures
Original title The Song of the Flame
Directors Ben Silvey, Alan Crosland
Writers Otto A. Harbach, Gordon Rigby, Oscar Hammerstein II

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

Shep Camp

as Officer

Ivan Linow

as Konstanin's Pal

Janina Smolinska

as Dancer