The Lady from Hell
{{short description|1926 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Lady from Hell
| image = The Lady from Hell.jpg
| caption =
| director = Stuart Paton
| producer =
| writer = J. Grubb Alexander
John W. Krafft
Norton S. Parker
| starring = Roy Stewart
Blanche Sweet
Ralph Lewis
| editing = John W. Krafft
| cinematography =
| studio = Stuart Paton Productions
| distributor = Associated Exhibitors
Ideal Films
| released = {{Film date|1926|01|07}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
(not to be confused with the 1929 Mary Astor film --The Woman from Hell)
The Lady from Hell is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Roy Stewart, Blanche Sweet, and Ralph Lewis.{{cite book |date=1997 |editor-last=Munden |editor-first=Kenneth W. |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1 |publisher=University of California Press |orig-date=1971 |page=414 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |isbn=0-520-20969-9 }}
It was released in the United Kingdom later the same year by Ideal Films under the alternative title of Interrupted Wedding.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |last= |first= |title=New Pictures: The Lady from Hell |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=67 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Co. |date=26 December 1925 |location=Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald24unse/page/n334/mode/1up |accessdate=19 January 2023}} {{Source-attribution}} following his service in World War I, Sir Robin Carmichael, a former British army officer from Scotland who works as a foreman of a ranch in America under an assumed name, gives a woman a gun to protect herself against her brutal husband. The woman’s little son Billy kills his father to save her from being beaten. In the meantime, Sir Robin has returned to his home in Scotland and is about to be wed to Lady Margaret Darnely. He is extradited back to the American town near the ranch on his wedding day on a charge of murder, but is cleared by the confession of the boy and his mother.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Roy Stewart as Sir Robin Carmichael
- Blanche Sweet as Lady Margaret Darnely
- Ralph Lewis as Earl of Kennet
- Frank Elliott as Sir Hugh Stafford
- Edgar Norton as Honorable Charles Darnely
- Margaret Campbell as Lady Darnely
- Ruth King as Lucy Wallace
- Michael D. Moore as Billy Boy
- Mark Hamilton as Tex Marvin
}}
Preservation
This film after being lost for decades was discovered in a New Zealand film archive and repatriated to the US.[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3033/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Lady from Hell][http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LadyFromHell1926.html The Lady from Hell at silentera.com]
References
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External links
{{commons category|The Lady from Hell}}
- {{IMDb title|0017055}}
{{Stuart Paton}}
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Category:1926 Western (genre) films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Stuart Paton
Category:Associated Exhibitors films
Category:Films set in Scotland
Category:Silent American Western (genre) films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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