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Hell’s Hinges
(1916)

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).

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

The source 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 home video.

Other silent era Jean Hersholt films available on 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 home video.

William S. Hart filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

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