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The Song of the Flame Reviews

  • 1930
  • 1 hr 36 mins
  • Music
  • NR
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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)

Expensively produced. Gordon Rigby did an injustice to the play by Oscar Hammerstein II. It's a boring story of how a simple peasant girl causes a revolution just by singing "Song of the Flame." She then falls in love with a Russian prince who is taken by the mob. To save him, she must give up her virtue to the lecherous Noah Beery. Songs include: "The Cossack Love Song," "Song of the Flame" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Herbert Stothart), "Petrograd," "Liberty Song," "The Goose Hangs High," "Passing Fancy," "One Little Drink" (Grant Clarke, Harry Akst, Ed Ward) and "When Love Calls" (Ward). The film earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound.