The Sacred Flame (1929)
65 mins | Melodrama | 24 November 1929
Director:
Archie L. MayoWriter:
Harvey ThewCinematographer:
James Van TreesEditor:
James GribbonProduction Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.According to a studio production chart in the 10 August 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, production began on 5 July 1929.
In 1930, this film was remade in Spanish and German-language versions. For information on those versions, please consult the entry above for La llama sagrada. Another adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's play was made by Warner Bros. in 1935. That film, entitled The Right to Live, was directed by William Keighley and starred Josephine Hutchinson and George Brent (See Entry). ...
According to a studio production chart in the 10 August 1929 Exhibitors Herald-World, production began on 5 July 1929.
In 1930, this film was remade in Spanish and German-language versions. For information on those versions, please consult the entry above for La llama sagrada. Another adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's play was made by Warner Bros. in 1935. That film, entitled The Right to Live, was directed by William Keighley and starred Josephine Hutchinson and George Brent (See Entry).
On the same day that Col. Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is married to Stella Elburn, his back is injured in an airplane accident, rendering him an invalid. Three years later, after he has clung to life out of devotion to his wife, his younger brother, Colin, returns from South America and at Maurice's request takes Stella out, resulting in their gradually falling in love. When Maurice dies, Nurse Wayland accuses Colin of murdering him with an overdose of sleeping powder; but Mrs. Taylor, who realized that Stella planned to elope, confesses that she administered the fatal overdose so that her son would never know that his wife left ...
On the same day that Col. Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is married to Stella Elburn, his back is injured in an airplane accident, rendering him an invalid. Three years later, after he has clung to life out of devotion to his wife, his younger brother, Colin, returns from South America and at Maurice's request takes Stella out, resulting in their gradually falling in love. When Maurice dies, Nurse Wayland accuses Colin of murdering him with an overdose of sleeping powder; but Mrs. Taylor, who realized that Stella planned to elope, confesses that she administered the fatal overdose so that her son would never know that his wife left him.
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