FILM 2366: FLAMINGO ROAD (1949)

TRIVIA: The interior set of a passenger train seen here was also used in several other Warner Brothers films of the period, among them Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) and the Doris Day comedy It's a Great Feeling (1949).

Famed German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder often named it as one of his ten favorite films, praising its director Michael Curtiz as "cruelly overlooked." Curtiz was often cited as one of his greatest influences and the opening scene of "Flamingo Road" is directly homaged in the opening of Fox and His Friends (1975), his own 1975 film.

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW: Not one of my favourite of Crawford’s films but a bit of fun and I do love to see it when she gets in that big fancy house and the furs.