{"id":16861,"date":"2015-06-04T02:04:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T01:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2015-06-04T03:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:10:02","slug":"lachmans-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/06\/04\/lachmans-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachman’s Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve written already about Harry Lachman’s remarkable melodrama, Dante’s Inferno<\/em><\/a> (1935), but the links to the Inferno sequence are now defunct so here’s an updated one<\/a>. Lachman was an artist before he became a production designer for Rex Ingram, and later a director in his own right. The French government awarded him the L\u00e9gion d’Honneur<\/em> for his painting but it’s this short piece of film for which he’s remembered today, a dreamlike journey through the circles of Dante’s Hell intended as a warning to the crooked fairground owner played by Spencer Tracy. The sequence is notable for closely following Gustave Dor\u00e9’s illustrations, and also for the surprising amount of naked flesh given that this was made when the Hays Code was in operation.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Hell, a film by Rein Raamat<\/a>
\n\u2022 Inferni<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mirko Racki\u2019s Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 Albert Goodwin\u2019s fantasies<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Lachman\u2019s Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 Maps of the Inferno<\/a>
\n\u2022 A TV Dante by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway<\/a>
\n\u2022 The last circle of the Inferno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written already about Harry Lachman’s remarkable melodrama, Dante’s Inferno (1935), but the links to the Inferno sequence are now defunct so here’s an updated one. Lachman was an artist before he became a production designer for Rex Ingram, and later a director in his own right. The French government awarded him the L\u00e9gion d’Honneur … Continue reading “Lachman’s Inferno”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,7,31],"tags":[593,596,3706,598,164],"class_list":["post-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-film","category-religion","tag-gustave-dore","tag-harry-lachman","tag-rex-ingram","tag-spencer-tracy","tag-tom-phillips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4nX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}