The Woman from Hell, known in some markets as The Woman from Luna or The Woman of Damnation, is a 1929 American synchronized sound drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor. Although the film had no dialogue, it featured a synchronized Movietone sound track of music and sound effects.Progressive Silent Film List: The Woman from Hell at silentera.comThe American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971 This was Dean Jagger's film debut. It is considered to be a lost film.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Woman from Hell
Plot Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they are able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper. She marries him out of gratitude and they move to his home on an island off the rockbound coast. Dee tries to convince Jim's salty old father, Pat, that she will be a good and faithful wife. But she is a passionate woman with a bit of the devil in her, and she flirts with Jim's best friend Alf, who invites her to elope to Havana with him. When Pat is incapacitated, however, Dee loyally remains in the lighthouse to operate the beam and avert a shipwreck.
Cast Mary Astor as Dee Renaud Robert Armstrong as Alf Dean Jagger as Jim Coakley Roy D'Arcy as 'Slick' Glicks May Boley as Mother Price James Bradbury Sr. as Pat Billy Gilbert
See also 1937 Fox vault fire List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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