Boxcars711 Weekend Matinee - Screen Director's Playhouse "Flamingo Road" (5-26-50)

Screen Director's Playhouse. May 26, 1950. Program #20. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. "Flamingo Road". A carnival woman is determined to enter high society, by traveling through the mud of a small town's secrets. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Michael Curtiz (guest screen director). 25:16.Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge. Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds, another member of the town's political machine. They marry and move to a home on Flamingo Road, the town's social pinnacle. Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself.Written by Daniel Bubbeo Go To GoDaddy, use the promo code blu19 and save 10%