Hell's Hinges (1916)

Directed by

Clifford Smith, Charles Swickard, William S. Hart

Genre

Western film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 04m

Rated

M/12

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A new preacher arrives in a rough frontier town called Hell's Hinges. The townspeople are hostile, and a local dance hall girl tries to protect the preacher from the violent men who oppose him.

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What happens

Hell's Hinges is a 1916 American silent Western film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas H. Ince, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan. In 1994, Hell's Hinges was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and is considered by some to be one of the finest silent Westerns. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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