The Flaming Forties
1924 film
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The Flaming Forties is a 1924 American silent Western film, the sixth of seven features which short-lived motion picture company Stellar Productions released in 1924–1925 as Producers Distributing Corporation vehicles for Harry Carey.[1][2][3] Carey was primarily known as a star of Westerns and only one of the seven films did not fit into that genre. Assigned as director was 31-year-old Tom Forman, who less than two years later, in November 1926, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Directed byTom Forman
Written byElliott J. Clawson
Harvey Gates
Harvey Gates
Based on"Tennessee’s Pardner"
by Bret Harte
by Bret Harte
Produced byHunt Stromberg
| The Flaming Forties | |
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| Directed by | Tom Forman |
| Written by | Elliott J. Clawson Harvey Gates |
| Based on | "Tennessee’s Pardner" by Bret Harte |
| Produced by | Hunt Stromberg |
| Starring | Harry Carey |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | Robert De Lacey |
| Distributed by | Producers Distributing Corporation |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The film was based upon the 1869 Bret Harte story "Tennessee’s Pardner," which has also been filmed as Tennessee's Pardner (1916), The Golden Princess (1925), and Tennessee's Partner (1955).
Cast
- Harry Carey as Bill Jones
- William Norton Bailey as Desparde
- Jacqueline Gadsden as Sally
- James Mason as Charley "Jay Bird Charley"
- Frank Norcross as Colonel Starbottle
- Wilbur Higby as The Sheriff
