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Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Erich von Stroheim
- The Great Flamarion
- (as Erich Von Stroheim)
Steve Barclay
- Eddie Wheeler
- (as Stephen Barclay)
William A. Boardway
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Hotel Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
Kay Deslys
- Sally Hampton
- (uncredited)
Alphonso DuBois
- Stagehand
- (uncredited)
John Elliott
- Theatrical Agent
- (uncredited)
Jack Evans
- Vagrant on Park Bench
- (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
- Stage Manager
- (uncredited)
Tony Ferrell
- Mexican Singer
- (uncredited)
Charles Fogel
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Joseph Granby
- Detective Ramirez
- (uncredited)
Bobbie Hale
- Pawn Shop Clerk
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Great Flamarion (1945) marked the debut of William Wilder as a motion picture producer. Wilder, who was sometimes credited as W. Lee Wilder on his later films, was an "eastern industrialist," according to a September 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item, and was the brother of director Billy Wilder.
Billy Wilder rarely talked about his brother, and when he did the theme was always the same: "A dull son of a bitch," Billy said of him in 1975. Years later he called him "a fool" who thought he could make it in Hollywood simply because his more famous brother had.
- GoofsIn the scene where Connie Wallace first tells Flamarion of her love for him, the position of the gun in Flamarion's hand changes depending upon the shot. When it is a close-up of Flamarion, the gun barrel is high up, about the level of Flamarion's upper arm. In the wider shot, the gun barrel is in the crook of his elbow as his arms are folded.
- Quotes
Connie Wallace: You know, no matter how fast you drink it the distilleries can still stay way ahead of you.
Al Wallace: Yup. But by next week I'll have 'em workin nights to do it!
- ConnectionsEdited into Muchachada nui: Episode #2.11 (2008)
- SoundtracksChita
by Faith Watson
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It Doesn't Go Up in Flamarions
This is a decent little movie with a really nasty woman. She is really quite beautiful, and in the Blue Angel tradition, makes a man twice her age and not all that attractive, fall for her. There's no fool like an old fool and you don't mess with Von Stroheim. I wasn't aware that the great actor/director made some pretty weak films over the years. This one survives pretty well. Von Stroheim plays Flamarion, a trick shot artist, who is in great demand. He gets into the business of an alcoholic and his cheating wife. She uses him, changes him, and then he wants revenge. The story is told by Flamarion as another vaudeville performer holds him in his arms as he dies. It is told in flashback. I have to admit knowing that things had no possibility of working out, yet because of the interesting nature of the characters, particularly the young woman (who is beautiful, even by modern standards). Those of us who have had those yearnings to be young again and have a second chance can easily sympathize as this man makes mistake after mistake; loving too much; trusting too much. I was fairly impressed by the movie.
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- Hitchcoc
- Oct 1, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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