--- title: 'Song of the Flame (1930)' type: 'film' director: 'Alan Crosland' released: '1930-01-01' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/song-of-the-flame-1930' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021404/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Song of the Flame (1930) 1930 · 96 min · Music · United States ## Synopsis Song of the Flame is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film photographed entirely in Technicolor. Based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, the film features a screenplay by Gordon Rigby adapted from the musical book written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach for the operetta. The movie also features many of the songs from the operetta which used lyrics by Hammerstein and Orbach and music by George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was the first color film to feature a widescreen sequence, using a process called Vitascope, the trademark name for Warner Bros. Pictures' widescreen process. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording. It is part of the tradition of operetta films, popular at the time. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alan Crosland](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-crosland) - **Screenplay:** [Gordon Rigby](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-rigby) - **Original Music Composer:** [George Gershwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-gershwin) - **Director of Photography:** [Lee Garmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-garmes) - **Editor:** [Alexander Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-hall) ## Cast - [Bernice Claire](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernice-claire) - [Ivan Linow](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-linow) - [Alice Gentle](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-gentle) - [Alexander Gray](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-gray) - [Bert Roach](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-roach) - [Noah Beery, Sr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-beery-sr) - [Inez Courtney](https://cinepixo.com/people/inez-courtney) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/song-of-the-flame-1930 Film facts: Wikidata (Q472916); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.