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Flamingo Road (1949)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302413458
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302413451
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: May 06, 1949
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Editorial Review:
Joan Crawford portrays the most demure, well-spoken refugee from a busted-down carnival you've ever seen--but that doesn't mean she can't get tough when events warrant, and eventually, events do indeed warrant in this crisply shot 1949 black-and-white, post-Casablanca melodrama from director Michael Curtiz.
Crawford plays Lane Bellamy, who falls hard for Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), who reciprocates but is being groomed for big things by wheezing political boss Titus (Sydney Greenstreet), who has no use for carny trash. Both Bellamy and Carlisle venture into loveless marriages, and Carlisle turns to drink, while Lane's subsequent husband (David Brian) is even higher on a greasy if not well-oiled political ladder ("I've got a soul that needs a lot of purging," he tells Lane). Interestingly, the film simply accepts politics as soulless and corrupt, as if there's any other kind.
Besides its still-fresh political cynicism, what keeps the film interesting is the showdowns between Crawford and Greenstreet, who both give performances representative of their distinguished careers. Crawford fairly hisses at the corpulent Greenstreet, "You just wouldn't believe how much trouble it is to get rid of a dead elephant." Greenstreet, clearly, forgets that this is Joan Crawford he's dealing with. --David Kronke
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Keep Joan alive in your heart and in your memories with this beautiful classic!!
I looooove this movie!! This is one of my favorite movies with Joan from the 40's. In this movie she plays, the part of Lane Bellamy, a stranded carnival dancer that takes on a corrupt bigwig after she marries into high society. This is one of those movies that Joan is so famous for. Because her character is incredibly dramatic, very beautiful, smart and too damn bitchy for her own good! The movie is 94 minutes long and originally premiered on May 6, 1949. Of course you know, it's black and white. ... Read More
Rating: - Just Saw This In N.Y. Theater
I was surprised to find that this was showing yesterday at MOMA here in New York City. I decided to go, as I missed my chance of seeing Joan on the big screen, (I was only 12 when she died), and she had long since stopped making films prior. I owned a copy of this on VHS years ago, but had forgotten most of it.
What was amazing to me was how well the film held up in every way, the characters were a hoot, the funny one-liners ("What are you in for?" "My boyfriend cut himself on a knife ... Read More
Rating: - It's Joan's Name, but It's Sydney's Picture
Delicious Hollywood hokum. The plot reads like one of those tawdry 25-cent paperbacks those of us of a certain age used to find in the back of a drugstore. Poor but plucky working girl Crawford climbs (sleeps) her way to the top of back-room politics, despite the odds. Never mind that dear Joan is at least ten years too old for the part, or that David Bryan's crooked boss reforms unbelievably because of Joan's true love. After all, this is the dream factory and here it's hitting on all 8 cylinders. ... Read More
Rating:  - Flamingo Road: Politics As Usual
Joan Crawford was forty five when she made FLAMINGO ROAD, and had been a star of the first magnitude for nearly two decades. After her award winning role as MILDREN PIERCE, director Michael Curtiz reunited her with Zachary Scott in a role that could have belonged to no other actress. Crawford is Lane Bellamy, a fallen woman from the wrong side of the tracks who yet possesses the grit to crawl from one side of that track to the other. She meets Zachary Scott, a weak deputy who is being groomed as the ... Read More
Rating: - Sydney Steals It!
Most reviews of "Flamingo Road" center on the leading lady, Joan Crawford. Joan is cast as the good girl we should all root for. She does indeed play that role, but there is more to "Flamingo Road" than that: FR opens as a fly by night circus leaves town-one step ahead of the law. Joan is left behind and decides to stay in town. She quickly makes some wrong choices in men. They (Zachary Scott and David Brian) are both decent enough guys but her love interests place her on the wrong side of the local sheriff ... Read More
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