Flamingo Road

A wrong girl for the right side of the tracks. Academy Award winner Joan Crawford stars as a sideshow dancer whose passion and ambition tear apart a small Florida town that sits along Flamingo Road. Lane Bellamy (Crawford--Mildred Pierce, Humoresque) takes a waitress job when she becomes stranded in a small town. But when she falls a in love with Fielding Carlisle (Zachary Scott), the protégé of the town's political boss (Sydney Greenstreet--The Maltese Falcon), a growing web of deceit, desire and manipulation leads to a showdown between the former dancer and the powerful local leader in this tale of lust, greed and power. Based on the play by Robert and Sally Wilder