The Flame of Life (1923)
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. −
Director: Hobart Henley
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Priscilla Dean as Joan Lowrie |
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Robert Ellis as Fergus Derrick |
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Kathryn McGuire as Alice Barholm |
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Wallace Beery as Don Lowrie |
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Fred Kohler as Spring |
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Beatrice Burnham as Liz |
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Emmett King as Barholm |
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Frankie Lee as Jud |
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Grace De Garro as Mag |
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Dorothy Hagan as Baroness |
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Evelyn McCoy as Fauntleroy |
| Writing | Elliott J. Clawson | Writer |
| Directing | Hobart Henley | Director |
| Writing | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Novel |
