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The Sacred Flame

Nov 24, 1929 · 1h 5m
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Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.

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CAST

Pauline Frederick
Mrs. Taylor
William Courtenay
Major Laconda
Conrad Nagel
Col. Maurice Taylor
Lila Lee
Stella Taylor
Walter Byron
Colin Taylor
Dale Fuller
Nurse Wayland
Alec B. Francis
Dr. Harvester
Directed by Archie Mayo

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EN
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US
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