Flamingo Road (1949)
- Starring:
- Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Flamingo Road
The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins falling in love with Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), the political protégé of the town's big-daddy sheriff Titus Semple (Sidney Greenstreet). Semple regards Lane as a gold-digging troublemaker, and does his best to break up the romance, framing her on a trumped-up morals charges and having her shipped off to prison. Once out of the "joint," Lane returns to town, seeking revenge against both Semple and Carlisle. She charms political hack Dan Reynolds (David Brian) into marriage, then transforms Reynolds into a "reform candidate" bent on destroying the corrupt Semple machine. Faced with political ruin, Lane's ex-beau Carlisle commits suicide, a fact that Semple uses as a weapon against Reynolds. A showdown is inevitable--but the story is far from over! Flamingo Road later served as the basis for a weekly TV series; both the film and the series were based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Flamingo Road
- Joan Crawford - Lane Bellamy
- Sydney Greenstreet - Titus Semple
- Gertrude Michael - Millie
- Virginia Huston - Annabelle Weldon
- Alice White - Gracie
- Tito Vuolo - Pete Ladas
- Sunny Knight - Waitress
- Dick Ryan
- Pierre Watkin - Senator
- Dale Robertson - Tunis Simms
- Carol Brewster
- Zachary Scott - Fielding Carlisle
- David Brian - Dan Reynolds
- Gladys George - Lute-Mae Saunders
- Fred Clark - Doc Waterson
- Sam McDaniel - Boatright
- Iris Adrian - Blanche
- Sammy McKim - Bellboy
- Pat Gleason - Barker
- Frank Scannell - Man
- Tristram Coffin - Ed Parker
- Director(s):
- Michael Curtiz
- Writer(s):
- Edmund H. North, Robert Wilder
- Producer(s):
- Jerry Wald
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