The Song of the Flame (1930)

The Song of the Flame (1930)

Release Date: 1930, May 24
Directors: Alan Crosland
Countries: United States of America
Production: First National Pictures
Cast: Bert Roach, Alexander Gray, Noah Beery, Inez Courtney, Ivan Linow, Bernice Claire, Alice Gentle, Shep Camp, Janina Smolinska

Overview:

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)