- Flame and the Flesh
Infobox Film
name = Flame and the Flesh
caption = Original film poster
director =Richard Brooks
producer =Joe Pasternak
writer =Helen Deutsch
Auguste Bailly (novel)
starring =Lana Turner
Pier Angeli
Carlos Thompson Bonar Colleano
music =Nicholas Brodszky
cinematography =Christopher Challis
editing = Albert Akst
Raymond Poulton
distributor =MGM
released = flagicon|USA1 May 1954
runtime = 104 min
country =USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
amg_id = 1:91620
imdb_id = 46982"Flame and the Flesh" is a 1954
drama film made byMGM . It was directed byRichard Brooks and produced byJoe Pasternak from ascreenplay byHelen Deutsch based on the novel byAuguste Bailly . The music score was byNicholas Brodszky and the cinematography byChristopher Challis .The film stars
Lana Turner ,Pier Angeli andCarlos Thompson withBonar Colleano .Background and production
The film is a
remake of a 1938 French film, "Naples au baiser de feu", also known in theUSA as "The Kiss of Fire", itself a remake of a 1925 French silent film of the same name. Both earlier versions were based on the same novel.The film was shot in
London andNaples ,Italy .In this film, Lana Turner, famously blonde, appears as a brunette.
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