I liked this movie. This is an excellent movie about a guy - Spencer Tracey as Jim Carter - whose life spirals out-of-control, out of a job, outta luck & outta money, until he is rescued by a man he meets at the Fairground, who later introduces him to Dante's Inferno.
Most fairgrounds host a 'house of horrors' side show or ghost train ride - whatever those horrors maybe, in this movie the 'house of horrors' was a 'sideshow' look at Dante's Inferno. The graphics are good, but this movie really needs to be coloured in so that you can get a real feel for Dante's Inferno to be realised.
What I particularly liked about this film is the way it mixes the fairground imagery house of horrors as one thing, with Henry B. Walthall as Pop McWade's vision of Dante's Inferno as another thing in the same movie.
My criticism of this movie is that Pop McWade's vision of the Dante's Inferno shoulda been narrated, so that in effect Pop McWade is talking us through each of the Circles of Hell. So that we can follow what vices were being tortured & how they were being tortured. But it was left as a 10 minute long running 'Silent' Saga, with each story running into the other. Therefore if you're not familiar with Dante Alighieri's Inferno, you wouldn't have a clue what's going on in that sequence.
The uncredited child actor Scotty Beckett was very good & very natural on set not stiff like some of today's child actors I could mention - so too was the The Father Son relationship in this movie - like they were having fun together , more than they were acting a role.
In the UK at this time there's a ferry company that has sacked all its professional staff & hired cheap unskilled labour. The news is filled with the legalities of it all. I found it interesting that a similar subject comes up as part of the storyline, but not because the staff were sacked because there were various strikes that involved ferry staff. Jim Carter breaks the rules & hires the unskilled labour. But, 'when push comes to shove', the unskilled labour 'jump ship' at the first sign of trouble with no loyalties to the passengers, the ship's commanders or the ship itself.
Most fairgrounds host a 'house of horrors' side show or ghost train ride - whatever those horrors maybe, in this movie the 'house of horrors' was a 'sideshow' look at Dante's Inferno. The graphics are good, but this movie really needs to be coloured in so that you can get a real feel for Dante's Inferno to be realised.
What I particularly liked about this film is the way it mixes the fairground imagery house of horrors as one thing, with Henry B. Walthall as Pop McWade's vision of Dante's Inferno as another thing in the same movie.
My criticism of this movie is that Pop McWade's vision of the Dante's Inferno shoulda been narrated, so that in effect Pop McWade is talking us through each of the Circles of Hell. So that we can follow what vices were being tortured & how they were being tortured. But it was left as a 10 minute long running 'Silent' Saga, with each story running into the other. Therefore if you're not familiar with Dante Alighieri's Inferno, you wouldn't have a clue what's going on in that sequence.
The uncredited child actor Scotty Beckett was very good & very natural on set not stiff like some of today's child actors I could mention - so too was the The Father Son relationship in this movie - like they were having fun together , more than they were acting a role.
In the UK at this time there's a ferry company that has sacked all its professional staff & hired cheap unskilled labour. The news is filled with the legalities of it all. I found it interesting that a similar subject comes up as part of the storyline, but not because the staff were sacked because there were various strikes that involved ferry staff. Jim Carter breaks the rules & hires the unskilled labour. But, 'when push comes to shove', the unskilled labour 'jump ship' at the first sign of trouble with no loyalties to the passengers, the ship's commanders or the ship itself.