Flamingo Road (1949 film)
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| Flamingo Road | |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Jerry Wald |
| Written by | Edmund H. North Robert Wilder Sally Wilder |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Zachary Scott Sydney Greenstreet David Brian |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Ted D. McCord |
| Editing by | Folmar Blangsted |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) |  May 6, 1949 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
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Flamingo Road is a 1949 American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian. Based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder, the film was adapted into a 1980s American television series, Flamingo Road.
[edit] Plot
Lane Bellamy is a dancer in a carnival who is stranded in a small town in the Southern United States. She first becomes romantically involved with the local sheriff, Fielding Carlisle, whose career is controlled by Titus Semple, a corrupt political boss who runs the town. Titus mounts a campaign against her. She has difficulty finding work and is arrested on a morality charge. Eventually, she finds work as a hostess at a roadhouse run by Lute Mae. There, she meets Dan Reynolds, a political opponent of Titus. She charms Dan into marrying her, and the couple moves to the town's best neighborhood, Flamingo Road. A drunken Fielding then calls on the couple and commits suicide, giving Titus another weapon in his bid to ruin Lane and her husband.
[edit] Cast
- Joan Crawford as Lane Bellamy
- Zachary Scott as Fielding Carlisle
- Sydney Greenstreet as Sheriff Titus Semple
- David Brian as Dan Reynolds
- Gladys George as Lute Mae Sanders
