| The Flaming Forties | |
| Director: | Tom Forman |
| Producer: | Hunt Stromberg |
| Starring: | Harry Carey |
| Cinematography: | Sol Polito |
| Editing: | Robert De Lacey |
| Distributor: | Producers Distributing Corporation |
| Runtime: | 6 reels |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent English intertitles |
The Flaming Forties is a 1924 American silent Western film, the sixth of seven features which short-lived motion picture company Stellar Productions released in 1924–1925 as Producers Distributing Corporation vehicles for Harry Carey.[1] [2] [3] Carey was primarily known as a star of Westerns and only one of the seven films did not fit into that genre. Assigned as director was 31-year-old Tom Forman, who less than two years later, in November 1926, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The film was based upon the 1869 Bret Harte story "Tennessee’s Pardner," which has also been filmed as Tennessee's Pardner (1916), The Golden Princess (1925), and Tennessee's Partner (1955).
With no prints of The Flaming Forties located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.