The Flaming Urge (1953)

★★★★★ · This movie is a hoot!! · Elric_Dewisant · 2010-09-20

OK. Time to put on your special pink-tinted glasses. Gay is the chief code word here, and this movie has it in spades. This old film doesn't really hold up well and it's moral of "just about anything can be cured if you just find the right girl" is woefully out-dated. still. It's one of the funnies hours you'll ever spend. Just about every gay stereotype is represented, from the nelly queen to he straight-acting businessman. Even the dog likes to "chase fires". And, there's more code in here than a German enigma machine. The print quality and sound are really good, considering it's age and…

★★★★ · Flaming good · Arch Stanton · 2010-07-22

FLAMING URGE is, in its way, a remarkable film by one time director-writer Harold Ericson which ought to be better known. It concerns the arrival in a small town of Tom Smith (Harold Lloyd, Jnr). Harold has a problem - he is irrestibly attracted to fires and compulsively chases every passing fire engine en route to a blaze. He has chosen this town to settle in as the level of fire incidents is the smallest on record that he can discover, to help himself overcome his pyrofilia. Tom finds himself a job in a local store with an understanding boss, but soon discovers that the number of fires…

★★★★ · Monroe would have burnt completely to the ground · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-01-21

As small as Monroe is now just imagine it in the 50's.. All those fires shown in the movie would have burned the place to the ground leaving not so much as a green twig for 100 miles in any direction. But the code is bordering on the obscene with hysteria and funniness. I'm not gay, but have had many gay friends over the years and have defended many as friends after wannabe thugs found them easy pickings. I always thought of it as one of the cruelest parts of human nature and a close friend in HS killed himself after he was labeled gay by our classmates then beaten repeatedly..He too was…