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The Great Flamarion
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The Great Flamarion (1945) by Anthony Mann. The Great Flamarion is a 1945 American film noir mystery film directed by Anthony Mann starring Erich von Stroheim and Mary Beth Hughes. The film, like many films noir, is shot in flashback narrative. The film was produced by Republic Pictures. This film is now in the public domain.
The Great Flamarion: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay. Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Anthony Mann
- 1945-03-30
The Great Flamarion. Released Jan 13, 1945 1h 18m Drama. List. Reviews. 43% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings. A vaudeville marksman (Erich von Stroheim) accidentally shoots his assistant's ...
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- Anthony Mann
- Drama
- Erich Von Stroheim
A film noir about a sharp shooter who falls in love with his female assistant and kills her husband in a stage act. The film flashes back and forth between the murder and the events leading up to it, revealing the betrayals and motives of the characters.
Read what critics and viewers think of this film noir starring Erich von Stroheim as a trick shot artist who falls for a femme fatale. Find out the plot, the cast, the director, and the ratings of this low-budget but entertaining movie.
The Great Flamarion is told via flashback, in a structure not too different from Double Indemnity, released the year before and directed by Billy Wilder. The producer of The Great Flamarion was Billy's brother, William Wilder (who later worked under the credit "W. Lee Wilder").
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According to William Darby's book on the films of Anthony Mann, The Great Flamarion — the director's eighth feature — was the first one in which his direction caught the eye of critics. Watching the film, it immediately becomes clear why, from the disorienting angles from which we see the declining Flamarion to his subtlety probing camera ...
