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Director
  
D. W. Griffith

Music director
  
Hugo Riesenfeld

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.2/10
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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Screenplay
  
John Russell

The Sorrows of Satan (film) movie poster

Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Writer
  
Forrest Halsey
,
George C. Hull
,
John Russell

Release date
  
October 12, 1926 (1926-10-12)

Based on
  
The Sorrows of Satan  by Marie Corelli

Cast
  
Adolphe Menjou
(Prince Lucio de Rimanez),
Ricardo Cortez
(Geoffrey Tempest),
Carol Dempster
(Mavis Claire),
Lya De Putti
(Princess Olga Godovsky)

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Related D W Griffith movies

The Sorrows of Satan (1926) is a silent film by D. W. Griffith based on the novel The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli. At this point in his career Griffith had given up his independent filmmaker status by joining Paramount Pictures.

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A previous version of Corelli's story had been filmed in England during World War I. Reportedly Griffith did not want to do this project, but as his first Paramount assignment he was not given a choice. Remarkably, however, the film turned out to be one of Griffith's most fully realized works and its critical stock has risen considerably in the last several decades. This was Carol Dempster's final screen role.

Plot

Adolphe Menjou stars as Prince Lucio de Rimanez, who is in fact really Satan assuming a human form. When struggling writer Geoffrey Tempest (Ricardo Cortez) is moved to curse God for his misfortunes, Prince Lucio makes a sudden appearance, informing Tempest that he has inherited a fortune. The only proviso is that Tempest must place his fate entirely in the Prince's hands. As he ascends to the uppermost rungs of European society, Tempest is ordered by Lucio to marry Russian Princess Olga (Lya De Putti), even though the writer still loves his sweetheart Mavis Claire (Carol Dempster). Eventually, Prince Lucio reveals his true identity, but not before Olga has committed suicide. After rejecting the devil and all his false promises, Tempest lives happily ever after with Mavis.

Production

This movie, like The Queen of Sheba and Ben-Hur, was released in a different edit in Europe concerning nudity. The American version of The Sorrows of Satan had Lya de Putti's character play a nightclub scene with enough attire to pass the censors. In the European version, Griffith shot the nightclub scene with de Putti bare breasted.

References

The Sorrows of Satan (film) Wikipedia
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