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The Flame of Life
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 5780 feet
Directed by Hobart Henley

Cast: Priscilla Dean [Joan Lowrie], Robert Ellis [Fergus Derrick], Kathryn McGuire [Alice Barholm], Wallace Beery [Dan Lowrie], Fred Kohler [Spring], Beatrice Burnham [Liz], Emmett King [Barholm], Frankie Lee [Jud], Grace De Garro [Mag], Dorothy Hagan [the baroness], Evelyn McCoy [Fauntleroy]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by Elliott J. Clawson, from the novel The Lass O’Lowrie’s by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Cinematography by Virgil Miller. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 5 Janaury 1923 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP18561]. Released 5 February 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: That Lass o’ Lowrie’s.

Drama: Historical.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 40.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Explosions - Labor-management relations - Lost jobs - Mines: Coal - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Unemployment - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 3 May 2014.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 124, 125; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 40; Sherwood-Best p. 165 : Website-AFI.