A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Dante’s Inferno
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5484 feet
Directed by Henry Otto

Cast: Lawson Butt [Dante], Howard Gaye [Virgil], Ralph Lewis [Mortimer Judd], Pauline Starke [Marjorie Vernon], Josef Swickard [Eugene Craig], Gloria Grey [Mildred Craig], William Scott [Ernest Judd], Robert Klein [a fiend], Winifred Landis [Mrs. Judd], Lorimer Johnston [the doctor], Lon Poff [the secretary], Bud Jamison [the butler]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Edmund Goulding, from a screen story by Cyrus Wood based on the epic poem Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Cinematography by Joseph August. Presented by William Fox. / © 30 June 1924 by Fox Film Corporation [LP20370]. Released 7 September 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Color-tinted.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Hell - Millionaires

Listing updated: 1 March 2010.

References: Basten-Technicolor p. 14 : Website-AFI.

Home video: VHS.