A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Conrad Nagel (seated). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

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

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [A Warner Bros. Production]. / Scenario by Harvey F. Thew, from the play The Sacred Flame by W. Somerset Maugham. Song “The Sacred Flame” by Harry Akst (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics). Cinematography by James C. Van Trees. Film editor, James Gribbon. Intertitles written by De Leon Anthony. / © 12 November 1929 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP848[. Premiere 22 November 1929 in New York, New York. Released 24 November 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The play was subsequently filmed as The Right to Live (1935). / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 January 2025.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.