The Song of the Flame (1930)
96 min
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)
- Release date
- May 24, 1930
- Country of origin
- United States
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
- Gregory Gaye
- Janina Smolinska as Dancer
Crew
- Alan Crosland · Director
- Oscar Hammerstein II · Writer
- Otto A. Harbach · Writer
- Gordon Rigby · Writer
- Lee Garmes · Cinematographer
- Alexander Hall · Editor