Dante's Inferno
(Italy)
“Though considered a ‘primitive', this early Italian spectacle, circa 1913, is virtually a documentary of what Hell is all about, spelling it out and explaining it in far more detail than many of us might care to know. Some of the special effects are remarkably ingenious for that period, and transcend even this rather lack-luster print.” William K. Everson
• (ca. 1913, ca. 60 mins, Silent, Print from W.K.E.)

The Devil's Assistant
“This two-reel condensation of a 5-reel San Diego-made feature is a rather alarming attack on drug addiction, climaxed by a nightmarish vision of Hell.” William K. Everson
• Directed by Henry Pollard. With Margarita Fischer, Jack Mower, Monroe Salisbury. (1917, 30 mins (condensation), Silent, Print from W.K.E.)

Dante's Inferno
(U.S.A.)
“Despite a rather pompous foreword about the great minds at Fox spending many years pondering and creating this film, it is actually a fairly straightforward melodrama into which has been deposited large chunks of footage from an earlier Italian version which, it must be admitted, has been very neatly intercut and matched with new material. The film was meticulously tinted, and not too surprisingly, flaming Reds dominate. Though unsubtle and by no means as imaginative as Fox's 1935 film of the same title, it's an enjoyable, flamboyant drama of regeneration.” William K. Everson
• Directed by A. Henry Otto. Written by Cyrus Wood, adapted by Edmund Goulding, based on Dante's “Inferno.” With Lawson Butt, Howard Gaye, Ralph Lewis, Pauline Starke. (1924, 63 mins, Silent, Tinted, Print from W.K.E.)