Dante's Inferno
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Dante's Inferno -- Well-crafted melodrama in which a penniless go-getter (Spencer Tracy) turns an amusement park show about the Italian poet Dante into a goldmine after marrying the niece (Claire Trevor) of its studious owner (Henry B. Walthall), then gets into trouble with the law and sinks all his money in a gambling boat destroyed by fire on its first outing. Directed by Harry Lachman, the acting, photography and set design put over a formula story whose moral is underlined by a grandiose sequence patterned on the Dore illustrations of Dante's description of hell. Stylized violence, criminal acts and fleeting nudity. (A-III) (br) 1935
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.