The Song of the Flame
US (1930): Musical/Lost
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 (Bernice Claire) who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince (Alexander Gray) saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirtator (Noah Beery).This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (an early Warner Bros. wide screen process). (Jason Almeida, IMDb)
This film is considered to be lost, but it may exist on laserdisc at UCLA. Five sound reels do exist, which have been transferred from the Vitaphone discs that accompanied the film. (Arne Andersen, IMDb)
1 nomination
· Sound Recording 1929-30: George R. Groves