The Sacred Flame (1929 film)

The Sacred Flame
Directed by	Archie Mayo
Written by	Harvey F. Thew De Leon Anthony
Based on	The Sacred Flame by Somerset Maugham
Starring	Pauline Frederick Conrad Nagel Lila Lee William Courtenay
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Edited by	James Gibbon
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	November 24, 1929 (1929-11-24)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Sacred Flame is a 1929 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.^[1] It is now considered a lost film.^[2] Two years later Warner Brothers 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.

Maurice Taylor a former Royal Flying Corps officer, veteran of World War I, marries Stella shortly before a plane crash that leaves him disabled. When his brother Colin arrives in England, she strikes up a close bond with him. Torn between her duty to her husband and her wish to start a new life abroad with his brother, Stella falls under suspicion of murder when her stricken husband dies.

• Pauline Frederick as Mrs. Taylor
• Conrad Nagel as Colonel Maurice Taylor
• Lila Lee as Stella Taylor
• William Courtenay as Major Laconda
• Walter Byron as Colin Taylor
• Dale Fuller as Nurse Wayland
• Alec B. Francis as Doctor Harvester

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

• The Sacred Flame at IMDb

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