The Flaming Forties

The Flaming Forties is a 1924 American silent Western film, the sixth of seven features which short-lived motion picture company Stellar Productions released in 1924–1925 as Producers Distributing Corporation vehicles for Harry Carey.^[1][2][3] Carey was primarily known as a star of Westerns and only one of the seven films did not fit into that genre. Assigned as director was 31-year-old Tom Forman, who less than two years later, in November 1926, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Flaming Forties
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Directed by	Tom Forman
Written by	Elliott J. Clawson Harvey Gates
Based on	"Tennessee’s Pardner" by Bret Harte
Produced by	Hunt Stromberg
Starring	Harry Carey
Cinematography	Sol Polito
Edited by	Robert De Lacey
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	December 21, 1924 (1924-12-21)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The film was based upon the 1869 Bret Harte story "Tennessee’s Pardner," which has also been filmed as Tennessee's Pardner (1916), The Golden Princess (1925), and Tennessee's Partner (1955).

Cast

• Harry Carey as Bill Jones
• William Norton Bailey as Desparde
• Jacqueline Gadsden as Sally
• James Mason as Charley "Jay Bird Charley"
• Frank Norcross as Colonel Starbottle
• Wilbur Higby as The Sheriff

Preservation

With no prints of The Flaming Forties located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

See also

• Harry Carey filmography