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Flamingo Road

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Flamingo Road
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NR,1hr 34min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1949
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Starring:
Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet  ...more
Synopsis: The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins falling in love with Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), the political protégé of the town's big-daddy sheriff Titus Semple (Sidney Greenstreet). Semple regards Lane as a gold-digging troublemaker, and does ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
If you can get past the idea of a fortysomething Joan Crawford playing a carnival kooch dancer, Flamingo Road is a fine, if somewhat humid, soap opera. Like she had in Mildred Pierce (1945), Crawford portrays the ambitious girl from the wrong side of the tracks, a part she could play to perfection by 1949 -- if, that is, the audience is willing to suspend a bit of disbelief. Warner Bros. did what they ... Full Review
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Joan Crawford
Lane Bellamy
Zachary Scott
Fielding Carlisle
Sydney Greenstreet
Titus Semple
David Brian
Dan Reynolds
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