Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno is a 1935 American drama horror film starring Spencer Tracy and loosely based on Dante Alighieri's 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 to be produced under the Fox Studios banner before the company merged with Twentieth Century Pictures to create 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation. Plot 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. Cast Spencer Tracy as Jim Carter Claire Trevor as Betty McWade Henry B. Walthall as Pop McWade Alan Dinehart as Jonesy Scotty Beckett as Alexander Carter Rita Hayworth (credited as Rita Cansino) as Dancer Willard Robertson as Building Inspector Harris Morgan Wallace as Chad Williford Robert Gleckler as Dean Don Ameche as Man in Stoke-Hold (uncredited) Jack Mower as Court Bailiff (uncredited) George Irving as Judge (uncredited) This was Spencer Tracy's last film for Fox before moving to MGM.