The Flaming Urge
19531h 8m480p
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.
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Harold Lloyd, Jr. plays a young man who has a compulsion to watch burning buildings. Byron Foulger plays the man who hires him.
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- Director
- Harold Ericson
- Starring
- Harold Lloyd Jr., Cathy Downs, Byron Foulger, Jonathan Hale, Florence Lake, Bob Hughes, Herbert Rawlinson, Pierre Watkin
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