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Auction History Result 5c0249 7 FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN hardcover book 1929 Merritt's novel, Thelma Todd movie, w/ REPRO DJ Date Sold 7/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 310 pages) (Learn More) Seven Footprints to Satan, the 1929 Benjamin Christensen psychological supernatural horror mystery thriller ("7 Footprints to Satan will raise the devil with your funny bone!"; based on the novel by A. Merritt; with intertitles by Cornell Woolrich, which he wrote using the William Irish pseudonym) starring Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis (as "The Spider"), William V. Mong, Sojin Kamiyama (billed as "Sojin"), Angelo Rossitto (as "The Dwarf"), Loretta Young (in an early uncredited role, as one of Satan's victims!), and Winter Blossom. Note that this is one of the coolest and most bizarre movies of this time! It had been thought to be lost for many years, but an Italian print of the sound version surfaced (the movie had been filmed as both a silent and a sound movie). The plot concerns a young man and woman who get mixed up with stolen jewels, and they end up at the home of Satan himself, where there is a bizarre masquerade party, and the woman is threatened with torture by some of the guests to make her tell where the jewels are! SPOILER ALERT! At the end of the movie, the two leads escape from Satan's house, but the ordeal has driven both of them completely insane! Look for Angelo Rossitto of "Freaks" fame in a major role as a dwarf at the party, a starring role by beautiful Thelma Todd, and an uncredited appearance by Loretta Young as one of Satan's victims. There is also a gorilla that attacks a nude woman, and much, much more! Bizarrely, there are many reviews of this movie online, but none of them state exactly who it was who plays Satan! Sadly, virtually no paper exists on this movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: NOTE THAT THIS DOES NOT HAVE ITS ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, BUT RATHER IT HAS A REPRODUCTION DUST JACKET. We pictured both sides of the REPRO dust jacket, so that it will be that much more clear that it is not original. PLEASE DO NOT BID THINKING THIS BOOK HAS AN ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Note that this is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition. Here are some more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). They would re-publish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good. The original dust jacket is missing and has been replaced with a REPRODUCTION dust jacket (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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