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The Great Flamarion (English Subtitled)
Film noir, Mystery
The film opens following a murder at a cabaret in Mexico City in 1936; a shot is heard, but the body of the female victim (Connie) has been strangled.
The police take the woman's husband into custody, assuming he is the murderer. But Flamarion, who has been shot, is the murderer and he explains to a stagehand why he killed Connie in flashback.
The Great Flamarion (Erich von Stroheim) is an arrogant, friendless, and misogynous marksman who displays his trick gunshot act in the vaudeville circuit.
His show features a beautiful assistant, Connie (Mary Beth Hughes) and her drunken husband Al (Dan Duryea), Flamarion's other assistant.
Flamarion falls in love with Connie, the movie's femme fatale, and is soon manipulated by her into killing her no good husband during one of their acts.
After Al's supposed accidental death, Connie convinces Flamarion to wait three months before the two can marry and flees back to Minnesota.
Meanwhile, Connie has already begun a relationship with another performer, Eddie (Stephen Barclay). After failing to show up at an arranged meeting place three months later, Flamarion goes into a downward spiral of drinking and gambling.
Flamarion eventually finds Connie who informs him that she never loved him and used him to get rid of her husband. (Wikipedia)
Movie Info
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Screenplay by: Heinz Herald, Richard Weil, Anne Wigton
Based on: the short-story "Big Shot" by Vicki Baum and Anne Wigton
Produced by: W. Lee Wilder
Starring: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes
Cinematography: James S. Brown Jr.
Edited by: John F. Link, Sr.
Music by: Alexander Laszlo
Production company: W. Lee Wilder Productions
Distributed by: Republic Pictures
Release dates: January 14, 1945 (New York City), March 30, 1945 (United States)
Running time: 78 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, English subtitled
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