The Flame of Life (1923)

9.0/10 • 70 min • Drama

Overview

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. −

Cast

Priscilla Dean

Joan Lowrie

Robert Ellis

Fergus Derrick

Kathryn McGuire

Alice Barholm

Wallace Beery

Don Lowrie

Fred Kohler

Spring

Beatrice Burnham

Liz

Emmett King

Barholm

Frankie Lee

Jud

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