The Flame of New Orleans

1941

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Music / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1473 1.5K

new orleans, louisiana gold digger

Plot summary

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Director

René Clair Photo
René Clair

Top cast

Mary Treen Photo
Mary Treen as Party Guest
Melville Cooper Photo
Melville Cooper as Brother-in-Law
Frank Sully Photo
Frank Sully as Oyster Bed Cafe Waiter
Frank Jenks Photo
Frank Jenks as 2nd Sailor
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728.27 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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1.32 GB
1456*1072
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cherold 7 / 10

utterly charming

Charming is the perfect word for this movie. Dietrich is at her best as she charms her two beaus, the score is charming, and Rene Clair brings the same light touch he showed the next year in I Married a Witch. Quite funny, but more than any thing else, charming.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

Marlene Takes The Big Easy

Sandwiched in between some of her great films at Universal with John Wayne is this modest programmer for Marlene Dietrich that depends considerably on her charms to carry it off. Perhaps it might have been a much better film had the two leading men she wanted been available.According to a recent biography of Marlene Dietrich, the two men she wanted for The Flame Of New Orleans were Cary Grant and Adolphe Menjou. She had worked with both before, Menjou in Morocco and Grant in Blonde Venus. She liked Menjou and sad to say MGM wouldn't make him available. At the time she and Cary Grant did not get along all that well, he played the other man in Blonde Venus. But in the interim he had gotten superstardom so Dietrich thought that Grant might prove to be a good screen partner now. Alas, that screen team was never to be.Marlene and her maid Theresa Harris arrive in New Orleans where from the outset it's made plain to the viewer that Dietrich is out to hook a rich fish from the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. The one she looks to land is rich and fussy Roland Young and she does bait a trap for him. But a roistering sea captain played by Bruce Cabot spoils it all for her though eventually Young falls for her as expected.Now if you can't figure out who she winds up with, there's something terribly wrong with you.Cabot does give a strong performance as the captain, I'm sure he was a rougher type than Cary Grant would have been. Of course as was usual with Marlene and her leading man, the obligatory affair was had. But she also said she found Cabot to be something of a boor and dropped him quickly.Theresa Harris had a very interesting and unusual role for a black actress of the time. She might be a maid, but she functions more like a partner in crime with Dietrich's schemes. She's nobody's fool in this film and even gets a love interest of sorts in Young's driver Clarence Muse.The film did get an Oscar nomination for Best Art&Interior Direction and the sets were grand. Rene Clair did a very good job of conveying New Orleans of 1841. Still the film is minor league Dietrich and it could have been a lot better if she had gotten the players she wanted as co-stars.
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