The Great Flamarion

Infobox Film
name = The Great Flamarion


image_size = 125px
caption = "The Great Flamarion" video cover
director = Anthony Mann
producer = W. Lee Wilder
writer = Vicki Baum (Story)
Anne Wigton (Screenplay & story)
Heinz Herald
Richard Weil
starring = Erich von Stroheim
Mary Beth Hughes
Dan Duryea
Stephen Barclay
Lester Allen
Esther Howard
music = Alexander Laszlo
cinematography = James S. Brown, Jr.
editing = John F. Link, Sr.
distributor = Republic Pictures
released = 1945
runtime = 76 minutes
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:20666
imdb_id = 0037749

"The Great Flamarion" is a 1945 American black and white film noir directed by Anthony Mann. The film, like many film noirs, is shot in flashback. The film was produced by Republic Pictures.

ynopsis

The Great Flamarion (Stroheim) is an arrogant, friendless, and misogynous marksman who displays his trick gunshot act in the vaudeville circuit. His show features a beautiful assistant, Connie (Hughes) and her drunken husband Al (Duryea), Flamarion's other assistant. Flamarion falls in love with Connie, the movie's femme fatale, and is soon manipulated by her into killing her no good husband during one of their acts. [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/20666/The-Great-Flamarion/overview "The Great Flamarion" Overview] ]

After Al's supposed accidental death, Connie convinces Flamarion to wait three months before the two can marry and flees back to Minnesota. Meanwhile, Connie has already begun a relationship with another performer, Eddie (Barclay). After failing to show up at an arranged meeting place three months later, Flamarion goes into a downward spiral of drinking and gambling. Flamarion eventually finds Connie who informs him that she never loved him and used him to get rid of her husband.

Main cast

*Erich von Stroheim as The Great Flamarion
*Mary Beth Hughes as Connie Wallace
*Dan Duryea as Al Wallace
*Stephen Barclay as Eddie Wheeler
*Lester Allen as Tony
*Esther Howard as Cleo

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0037749|title=The Great Flamarion
*amg title|id=1:20666|title=The Great Flamarion
*rotten-tomatoes|id=great_flamarion|title=The Great Flamarion