938787

DANTE'S INFERNO vintage film still 9 | USA 1935 #938787

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DANTE'S INFERNO vintage film still 9 | USA 1935 #938787
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8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm.)

Verso: Various stamps
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DANTE'S INFERNO [1935]

The film uses a conventional story of greed and dishonesty to project an image of the Inferno conjured up in Dante's 13th century epic poem. Director Harry Lachman had established a substantial reputation as a painter before embarking on a Hollywood career and he summoned his artistic vision to realise Dante's work in cinematographic form, drawing on the engravings of Gustave Doré.
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The highlight of the film is an all too brief, pre-censorship view of Hell and its condemned souls taken from the 1924 film of the same title (directed by Henry Otto and filmed by Joseph August) and modified for this sound production. They are filled with extraordinary images of naked bodies falling from burning cliffs; trees formed from the bodies of suicides; rows of people sitting on either side of an abyss with their feet chained across the chasm; souls being crushed by the weight of the giant tombstones they are forced to carry; flying angels circling brimstone-clouded caverns, all aided by a dramatic score. So outre and fantastic these scenes are, they only serve to highlight the incongruities of the papier-mache Inferno sets and Devil costumes presented in the rest of the film.
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<tr><td>Condition:Fine</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1935</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>

<tr><td>Height:8</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:10</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:DANTE'S INFERNO vintage film still 9 | USA 1935</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
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