Hell Bent (1918)
Western | 6 July 1918
Cast:
Harry Carey, Duke Lee , Neva Gerber [ More ]Director:
Jack FordWriters:
Jack Ford , Harry CareyProduction Company:
Universal Film Mfg Co.In response to the Ohio Censor Board's objection to the word “Hell” in the title, a Universal executive renamed this film, The Three Bad Men. Motion Picture News reviewed it under the latter title, crediting the scenario to E. B. Lewis. Objections by Chicago, IL, censors resulted in a stagecoach robbery and a shootout being cut from the film there.
Modern sources include M. K. Wilson and Steve Clemento in the cast.
Several scenes were shot in Beale's Cut, a pass through the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains north of Los Angeles, CA. Excavated in the 1850s, the cut was seventy feet deep and thirty feet wide.
A Universal print of Hell Bent was screened at the 24th San Francisco Silent Film Festival on 4 May 2019. ...
In response to the Ohio Censor Board's objection to the word “Hell” in the title, a Universal executive renamed this film, The Three Bad Men. Motion Picture News reviewed it under the latter title, crediting the scenario to E. B. Lewis. Objections by Chicago, IL, censors resulted in a stagecoach robbery and a shootout being cut from the film there.
Modern sources include M. K. Wilson and Steve Clemento in the cast.
Several scenes were shot in Beale's Cut, a pass through the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains north of Los Angeles, CA. Excavated in the 1850s, the cut was seventy feet deep and thirty feet wide.
A Universal print of Hell Bent was screened at the 24th San Francisco Silent Film Festival on 4 May 2019.
Fleeing from the law after a poker-game shootout, Cheyenne Harry arrives in the town of Rawhide, where he befriends cowboy Cimmaron Bill and Bess Thurston, who works in the local dance hall in order to support her sick mother. Beau Ross, the leader of a gang of outlaws, is infatuated with Bess, and after he convinces her brother Jack to join his gang, he abducts her. Beau captures Cheyenne, but he escapes by overpowering Jack and stealing his clothes. Disguised as Jack, Cheyenne catches Beau, and the two embark on a fifty-mile walk across the desert. When they finally reach the nearest water hole and find it dry, Beau expires, while Cheyenne is rescued by Cimmaron ...
Fleeing from the law after a poker-game shootout, Cheyenne Harry arrives in the town of Rawhide, where he befriends cowboy Cimmaron Bill and Bess Thurston, who works in the local dance hall in order to support her sick mother. Beau Ross, the leader of a gang of outlaws, is infatuated with Bess, and after he convinces her brother Jack to join his gang, he abducts her. Beau captures Cheyenne, but he escapes by overpowering Jack and stealing his clothes. Disguised as Jack, Cheyenne catches Beau, and the two embark on a fifty-mile walk across the desert. When they finally reach the nearest water hole and find it dry, Beau expires, while Cheyenne is rescued by Cimmaron Bill.
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