Flamingo Road

"A wrong girl for the right side of the tracks."

Apr 30 1949 Approved 1h 34m
Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Plot

Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge. Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds, another member of the town's political machine. They marry and move to a home on Flamingo Road, the town's social pinnacle. Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself.

Written by

Robert Wilder, Edmund H. North, Sally Wilder

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
3,868
Average Rating
7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA