Seven Footprints to Satan

Seven Footprints to Satan
Directed byBenjamin Christensen
Screenplay byBenjamin Christensen[1]
Story byBenjamin Christensen[1]
Based on7 Footprints to Satan
by Abraham Merritt
Produced byWid Gunning
Starring
CinematographySol Polito[1]
Edited byFrank Ware[1]
Production
companies
First National Pictures, Inc.[1]
Distributed byFirst National Pictures, Inc.[2]
Release date
  • January 27, 1929 (1929-01-27)
CountryUnited States[2]
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles
Box office$129,950[3]

Seven Footprints to Satan is a sound part-talkie 1929 American mystery film directed by Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen. Based on the 1928 story of the same name by Abraham Merritt, it stars Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, William V. Mong and Sheldon Lewis. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.[2] The film survives at the Cineteca Italiana in an alternate sound version known as an International Sound Version.[4] The sound disks for this foreign sound version are apparently not extant.

  1. ^ a b c d e Pitts 2018, p. 235.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference afi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Donati, p. 35.
  4. ^ The first title on the film states "il film sonoro" or synchronized sound film. Available online at: https://www.cinetecamilano.it/film/1958