Hell's Hole

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Hell's Hole
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Still with Maurice Bennett Flynn and Ruth Clifford
Directed by Emmett J. Flynn
Screenplay by Bernard McConville
Story by George Scarborough
Starring Buck Jones
Maurice Bennett Flynn
Ruth Clifford
Eugene Pallette
George Siegmann
Kathleen Key
Cinematography Lucien Andriot
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 23, 1923 (1923-09-23)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Hell's Hole is a lost 1923 American silent Western film directed by Emmett J. Flynn and written by Bernard McConville. The film stars Buck Jones, Maurice Bennett Flynn, Ruth Clifford, Eugene Pallette, George Siegmann, and Kathleen Key. The film was released on September 23, 1923, by Fox Film Corporation. [1] [2] [3]

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Preservation

With no prints of Hell's Hole located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. "Hell's Hole (1923) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  2. Janiss Garza. "Hell's Hole (1923) - Emmett J. Flynn". AllMovie. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  3. "Hell's Hole". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Hell's Hole