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Hell’s 400
(1926) United States of America
Color/B&W : Six reels / 5582 feet
Directed by John Griffith Wray
Cast: Margaret Livingston [Evelyn Vance], Harrison Ford [John North], Henry Kolker [John Gilmore], Wallace MacDonald [Marshall Langham], Rodney Hildebrand [Bill Montogomery], Amber Norman [Vivian], Marceline Day [Barbara Langham]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Scenario by Bradley King, from the novel The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester. Assistant director, Buddy Erickson. Cinematography by Karl Struss. Presented by William Fox. / © 14 March 1926 by Fox Film Corporation [LP22561]. Released 14 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. / The final reel was presented in Technicolor.
Drama.
Synopsis: [Film Daily, 30 May 1926, page 39] Evelyn marries the rich Marshall Langham thereby double-crossing Gilmore, her boss, who had employed her to rope Langham into a scandal because of debts he owed Gilmore. The latter is killed and North, district attorney and sworn enemy of Gilmore and his gambling house, is held on circumstantial evidence. Evelyn could clear North but in so doing, she would expose Langham, the guilty one. When he is dying, he clears North who is engaged to his sister. At this point, Evelyn sees a vision in which her sins take the forms of monsters. For a fade-out you have Evelyn waking from a bad dream and all set to go on the iceman’s picnic instead of hunting a rich papa.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 February 2009.
References: ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI.
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