Dante's Inferno

Jim Carter used to work as a stoker. At a fairground he takes over a show run by Pop McWade. The show puts on scenes from the Inferno of Dante. Pop had used it as a warning to people; Carter sees it as a way to make money. He builds the business up into a gambling empire. Along the way he marries Pop’s niece Betty and they have a son. But the growing business comes down on his family. In the middle of the film there is a ten minute sequence of hell. That sequence was made by the director Harry Lachman, who was also a painter. Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor take the leads in the American film of 1935.