The Sacred Flame (1929 film)

The Sacred Flame is a 1929 film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Pauline Frederick and Conrad Nagel, and based on a 1928 Broadway play of the same title by Somerset Maugham. It is now considered a lost film. Two years later Warner Brothers remade the film in German The Sacred Flame. In 1935, a second remake The Right to Live, was made, starring Colin Clive and George Brent.

Plot
Maurice Taylor a former Royal Flying Corps officer, veteran of World War I, marries Stella shortly before a plane crash that leaves him disabled. When his brother Colin arrives in England, she strikes up a close bond with him. Torn between her duty to her husband and her wish to start a new life abroad with his brother, Stella falls under suspicion of murder when her stricken husband dies.

Cast

 * Pauline Frederick as Mrs. Taylor
 * Conrad Nagel as Colonel Maurice Taylor
 * Lila Lee as Stella Taylor
 * William Courtenay as Major Laconda
 * Walter Byron as Colin Taylor
 * Dale Fuller as Nurse Wayland
 * Alec B. Francis as Doctor Harvester