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Dante's Inferno is a american film of genre Drama directed by Harry Lachman released in USA on 23 august 1935 with Spencer Tracy

Dante's Inferno (1935)

Dante's Inferno
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Released in USA 23 august 1935
Length 1h29
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Fantasy
Rating65% 3.294263.294263.294263.294263.29426

Dante's Inferno is a 1935 motion picture starring Spencer Tracy and loosely based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. The film remains primarily remembered for a 10-minute depiction of hell realised by director Harry Lachman, himself an established post-impressionist painter. This was Fox Film Corporation's last film when the company merged with 20th Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox

Synopsis

Jim Carter, a former stoker, takes over a fairground show, run by 'Pop' McWade, which depicts scenes from Dante's Inferno. He marries Pop's niece Betty and they have a son, Alexander. Meanwhile the show becomes a great success, with Carter making it larger and more lurid. An inspector declares the fair unsafe but Carter bribes him into silence. There is a partial collapse at the fair which injures Pop. Recovering in hospital, he admonishes Carter and we see a lengthy vision of the Inferno. Undeterred, Carter establishes a new venture with an unsafe floating casino, only for disaster to strike again at sea.

Actors

Spencer Tracy

(Jim Carter)Claire Trevor

(Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter)Rita Hayworth

(Dancer)Alan Dinehart, Sr.

(Jonesy)Henry B. Walthall

(Pop McWade)
And :
Scotty Beckett
Don Ameche
Oscar Apfel
Willard Robertson
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