The Song of the Flame

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)

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Cast

Alexander Gray

Prince Volodya

Bernice Claire

Aniuta, The Flame

Noah Beery

Konstantin

Alice Gentle

Natasha

Bert Roach

Count Boris

Inez Courtney

Grusha

Shep Camp

Officer

Ivan Linow

Konstanin's Pal

Gregory Gaye

Janina Smolinska

Dancer