The Flame of Life (1923)

Directors

Hobart Henley

Cast

Kathryn McGuire, Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis, Wallace Beery

The story

As described in a film magazine, Joan Lowrie (Dean) is one of the beasts of burden making up the population of the little English mining village. Culling slate from coal all day long with a score of broken-down hags, young women, and girls, she lived a life of horror at home, beaten constantly by her father. The mine receives a new over-man, Fergus Derrick (Ellis), trying to get on friendly terms with the drudging slaves, but meets a spirit of independence that proved the people better than animals.

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