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Hell's Heroes is a 1929 American pre-Code Western sound film, one of many screen adaptations of Peter B. Kyne 's 1913 novel The Three Godfathers. Three outlaws, played by Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, and Fred Kohler, promise a dying woman they will save her newborn child. This film is notable for being the first sound production directed ...
Hell's Heroes: Directed by William Wyler. With Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway. Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon.
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- Western
- William Wyler
- 1930-01-05
Shot in August 1929 in scorching desert heat and completed by October, Hell’s Heroes was held for release until Christmas week in New York City (and early 1930 elsewhere). It was the third of five authorized film adaptations of San Franciscan Peter B. Kyne’s frontier Christmas story “The Three Godfathers,” published in the Saturday ...
This is the trio of bad men who ride into an unexpected destiny in the desert in Hell’s Heroes. And the film, making its return to the big screen in Pordenone after an extended absence, is a fresh reminder of the many gems that lie hidden behind the more famous milestones in our cinematic heritage. J.B. Kaufman. Universal, 1929.
A silent version of the film was also released, at a length of 5,836 feet. Peter B. Kyne's story first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on November 23, 1912. According to some sources, the story was based on an earlier Kyne story entitled "Bronco Billy and the Baby," which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1910 and was the basis for a short Essanay film of the same title.
- William Wyler
- Charles Bickford
Jun 14, 2023 · Genre: WesternStoryline:Three bank robbers on the run stumble upon a woman who is about to give birth in an abandoned van. Before her death, she named three ...
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Oct 24, 2010 · The movie is great—far superior to either of John Ford’s versions (from 1926 and 1948) or the 1936 version. I will even go so far as to state that Hell’s Heroes is the Best Picture of 1929, which, admittedly, was a dreadful year for movies with the change over from silent to sound. But Wyler was such a great filmmaker that he immediately ...
