The Sacred Flame

The Sacred Flame (1929)

Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.

Date of release
1929-11-24
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
Archie Mayo

Casting

Interesting facts

The Sacred Flame is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) romantic drama 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. It was considered a lost film until a three-second fragment was rediscovered on May 10, 2022. Two years later Warner Bros. Pictures 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.

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