Flamingo Road (film)

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Flamingo Road
Original film poster
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 deputy sheriff, Fielding Carlisle, whose career is controlled by Sheriff 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

[edit] External links

• Flamingo Road at the Internet Movie Database
• Flamingo Road at Allmovie

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