 A copy of "The Flame of Life" is currently housed in the NBCUniversal Studios archives, but is available for the company's internal research and referencing purposes only and is not available to the general public.As described in a film magazine, Joan Lowrie (Dean) is one of the beasts of burden making up the population of the little English mining village.Culling slate from coal all day long with a score of broken-down hags, young women, and girls, she lived a life of horror at home, beaten constantly by her father.