Flamingo Road is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet and David Brian in a noir story about small town political corruption. The screenplay by Edmund H. North was based on a play by Robert and Sally Wilder, which was adapted from Robert Wilder's 1942 novel. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Jerry Wald. Flamingo Road has been released to VHS and DVD. Lane Bellamy is a carnival dancer stranded in the fictitious small town of Boldon City in the Southern United States. She becomes romantically involved with Fielding Carlisle... , a deputy sheriff whose career is controlled by Sheriff Titus Semple , a corrupt political boss who runs the town. Semple dislikes Bellamy and mounts a campaign against her. She has difficulty finding work and is arrested on a trumped-up morality charge. Eventually, she finds work as a hostess at a roadhouse run by Lute Mae Sanders . There, she meets Dan Reynolds , a businessman who supports the corrupt Semple so long as it is profitable.
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| Release date: | 1949 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Wald |
| Music by: | Max Steiner |