The Flame of Life (1923)
1h 10m
Running Time
February 5, 1923Release Date

The Flame of Life (1923)
1h 10m
Running Time
February 5, 1923Release Date
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Plot.
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. β
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Cast & Crew.

Priscilla Dean
Joan Lowrie

Robert Ellis
Fergus Derrick

Kathryn McGuire
Alice Barholm

Wallace Beery
Don Lowrie

Fred Kohler
Spring

Beatrice Burnham
Liz

Emmett King
Barholm

Frankie Lee
Jud

Grace De Garro
Mag

Dorothy Hagan
Baroness

Evelyn McCoy
Fauntleroy

Hobart Henley
Director

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Novel

Elliott J. Clawson
Writer

Virgil Miller
Cinematographer
Media.

Details.
Wiki.
The Flame of Life (also known as That Lass o' Lowrie's) is a 1923 American silent drama film starring Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis, Kathryn McGuire, and Wallace Beery. The film was written by Elliott J. Clawson from the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel That Lass o' Lowrie's and directed by Hobart Henley.
A print of The Flame of Life is currently housed in the NBCUniversal Syndication Studios archives, but is available for the company's internal research and referencing purposes only and is not available to the general public.