Hell’s Hinges
(1916) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Charles Swickard + [William S. Hart]

Cast: William S. Hart [‘Blaze’ Tracy], Clara Williams [Faith Henley], Jack Standing [Reverend Robert Henley], Alfred Hollingsworth [‘Silk’ Miller], Robert McKim [clergyman], J. Frank Burke [Zeb Taylor], Louise Glaum [Dolly]; Jean Hersholt [townsperson], John Gilbert [rowdy cowboy], Robert Kortman, Leo Willis

New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Triangle Film Corporation [Kay-Bee]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by C. Gardner Sullivan. Cinematography by Joseph August. Intertitle artwork by Mon Randall. / © 15 February 1916 by New York Motion Picture Corporation [LU7636]. © 5 March 1916 by Triangle Film Corporation [LP10792]. Released 5 March 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot 4 September-26 October 1915. Production cost $32,676.43. / [?] Website-IMDb lists the release date as 3 February 1916. [?] Another source lists the film as released 21 June 1915. [?] Shipman-Cinema p. 58 (probably incorrectly) lists this film as directed by Reginald Barker.

Drama: Western.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1855, and in Koszarski-Hart p. 39.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive, the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive, and the Museum of Modern Art film archive, in the Em Gee Film Library film collection [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Churches - Clergy - Cowboys - Crime: Arson - Fire - Frame-ups - Gunfighters - Gunfights - Reformers - Saloons - Seduction - Smoke - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 24 April 2008.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.1855; Bohn-Light pp. 62, 63-64, 96; Card-Seductive p. 59; Everson-American pp. 86j, 133, 246, 247, 369; Fell-History p. 109; Kerr-Silent p. 303; Koszarski-Hart pp. xviii, xix, 39-41; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 99; Lahue-Triangle pp. 21, 24, 129, 137; Leyda-Before pp. 71-72; Limbacher-Feature p. 106; Shipman-Cinema pp. 58, 60; Sinyard-Silent pp. 56, 57; Spehr-American p. 273; Tarbox-Lost p. 228; Vermilye-Twenties p. 129; Weaver-Twenty p. 142.

Home Video: DVD.