The Song of the Flame
The Song of the Flame

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)

Release Date

May 24, 1930

Status

Released

Original Title

The Song of the Flame

Runtime

1h 36min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

First National Pictures