Slade in Flame

Slade in Flame
Film poster by Arnaldo Putzu
Directed by	Richard Loncraine
Written by	Andrew Birkin (screenplay) Dave Humphries (additional dialogue)
Produced by	Gavrik Losey
Starring	Noddy Holder Dave Hill Don Powell Jim Lea Tom Conti Alan Lake
Cinematography	Peter Hannan
Edited by	Michael Bradsell
Music by	Slade
Production company	Goodtimes Enterprises
Distributed by	Visual Programme Systems (UK)
Release date	January 1975 (1975-01)
Country	United Kingdom
Box office	$1 million (UK)[1]

Slade in Flame (also known as Flame) is a 1975 film starring the British rock band Slade. It was directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Andrew Birkin with additional dialogue by Dave Humphries. The film includes supporting roles by Tom Conti, Alan Lake and Johnny Shannon. In November 1974, the band's soundtrack album of the same name was released prior to the film.

The film charts the history of "Flame", a fictitious group in the late 1960s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith. Described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by BBC film critic Mark Kermode, the film went on to achieve critical acclaim years after the mixed feelings on its original release.

Slade in Flame has been released in VHS and DVD form, and was re-mastered and released in its original Cinemascope wide-screen format on DVD for the first time in 2007. The set also featured the soundtrack album.^[2] In 2015, Salvo Sound & Vision issued a repackaged CD and DVD version of the album and film.^[3]

A paperback book was released, based on the film, written by John Pidgeon.^[4] It was the largest printing that the publisher Panther had done for the home market at 250,000 copies.^[5][6]