Flame ( Slade in Flame )

Flame (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Slade in Flame
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
144 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Richard Loncraine

Written By:
Andrew Birkin
Dave Humphries

Actors:
Noddy Holder ..... Stoker
Jim Lea ..... Paul
Dave Hill ..... Barry
Don Powell ..... Charlie
Tom Conti ..... Robert Seymour
Johnny Shannon ..... Ron Harding
Kenneth Colley ..... Tony Devlin
Alan Lake ..... Jack Daniels
Sara Clee ..... Angie
Anthony Allen ..... Russell
Rosko ..... Himself
Tommy Vance ..... Ricky Storm
John Dicks ..... Lenny
Michael Coles ..... Roy Priest
Nina Thomas ..... Julie

Synopsis:

British glam rock superstars Slade made their collective acting debut in this downbeat drama about a pop group's struggles with success. In the late '60s, Barry (Dave Hill), Paul (Jim Lea), and Charlie (Don Powell) are musicians who are barely making a living playing pub dates, weddings, and socials backing up egocentric vocalist Jack Daniels (Alan Lake). One night, the boys find themselves opening for a ghoulish show band called The Undertakers, and a prank played on their lead vocalist, Stoker (Noddy Holder), backfires and leads to a car chase which lands both groups in jail for the night. After a long night of thinking, Barry, Paul, and Charlie decide that they have no future with Daniels, and bring new pal Stoker aboard as their singer. Calling themselves Iron Rod, the new quartet clicks musically, but manager Ron Harding (Johnny Shannon) doesn't care for their new style and stops booking the group. Robert Seymour (Tom Conti), a marketing man from a wealthy family who thinks there's quick money in pop music, enters the picture and informs the band that he can make them major stars. Wary of Seymour but eager for success, the group signs a new management deal, and after Seymour changes their name to Flame and gives them an image makeover, the band scores a hit record and is soon playing a series of sold-out shows. But as fame beckons, tensions rise between the musicians and is not at all helped when Harding reenters the picture. Slade members Jim Lea and Noddy Holder wrote a set of original songs for the film, two of which ('Far Far Away' and 'How Does It Feel') became hit singles in the U.K.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2007.

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