Flamingo Road (1949)

Flamingo Road 1949 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 cant get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped up morals charge Released from jail, Lane finds work as a hostess at Lutie Maes road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds, another member of the towns political machine They marry and move to a home on Flamingo Road, the towns social pinnacle Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself