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Hell’s Hinges
(1916)
on

2000/2005 National Film Preservation Foundation edition

Hell’s Hinges (1916), black & white and color-toned black & white, 64 minutes, not rated.

National Film Preservation Foundation, distibuted by Image Entertainment, NATD9706DVD (rereleased as NATD0918DVD), UPC 0-14381-97062-3 (rereleased as 0-14381-09182-3).
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, four single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 0, 6 Mbps average video bit rate, 192 kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and mono sound, English language intertitles (silent era films), no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, four cardboard wrapped plastic trays with 150-page book of program notes (rereleased with four smaller bookets) in cardboard slipcase, $99.99 (rereleased at $69.95).
DVD release date: 3 October 2000 (rereleased 10 May 2005).
Country of origin: USA

Hell’s Hinges (1916) is a Western feature drama of the supposedly pious turning corrupt (Jack Standing) and the supposedly unredeemable turning to good (William S. Hart). The print is missing its main title but features its original art title intertitle cards. Approximately 36 minutes of the film are color-toned. Transferred full-frame from a 35mm preservation print from a moderately speckled and scuffed but still very good original 35mm nitrate print.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other William S. Hart films available on DVD home video:
The Bargain (1914)
Blue Blazes Rawden (1918)
The Cradle of Courage (1920)
The Films of William S. Hart (1915)
Hell’s Hinges (1916)
The Return of ‘Draw’ Egan (1916)
The Square Deal Man (1917)
The Toll Gate (1920)
Tumbleweeds (1925)
Wagon Tracks (1919)

Other silent era Jean Hersholt films available on DVD home video:
The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)
Stella Dallas (1925)
Tess of the Storm Country (1922)

Other silent era western films available on DVD home video:
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1914)
Behind Two Guns (1924)
Born to Battle (1927)
The Buckaroo Kid (1926)
Bucking Broadway (1917)
Custer’s Last Fight (1912)
The Deerslayer (1920)
The Devil Horse (1926)
The Great K&A Train Robbery (1926)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
The Iron Horse (1924)
Jesse James Under the Black Flag (1921)
Just Tony (1922)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
The Man from Texas (1915)
The Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
Pioneers of the West (1927)
Redskin (1929)
The Son-of-a-Gun! (1918)
The Squaw Man (1914)
Straight Shooting (1917)
Thundering Hoofs (1924)
The Vanishing American (1925)
Wild Beauty (1927)

William S. Hart filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

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