The Sacred Flame is a 1929 film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Pauline Frederick and Conrad Nagel, and based on a 1928 Broadway play of the same title by Somerset Maugham.[1] It is now considered a lost film.[2] Two years later Warner Brothers remade the film in German The Sacred Flame. In 1935, a second remake The Right to Live, was made, starring Colin Clive and George Brent.
Plot[]
Maurice Taylor a former Royal Flying Corps officer, veteran of World War I, marries Stella shortly before a plane crash that leaves him disabled. When his brother Colin arrives in England, she strikes up a close bond with him. Torn between her duty to her husband and her wish to start a new life abroad with his brother, Stella falls under suspicion of murder when her stricken husband dies.
Cast[]
- Pauline Frederick as Mrs. Taylor
- Conrad Nagel as Colonel Maurice Taylor
- Lila Lee as Stella Taylor
- William Courtenay as Major Laconda
- Walter Byron as Colin Taylor
- Dale Fuller as Nurse Wayland
- Alec B. Francis as Doctor Harvester
References[]
- ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..The Sacred Flame
- ↑ "The Films of Pauline Frederick". Greta de Groat, Metadata Librarian for Electronic and Visual Resources, Stanford University. Retrieved on May 8, 2016.
Bibliography[]
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
