Seven Footprints to Satan

Seven Footprints to Satan is a sound part-talkie 1929 American mystery film directed by Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen. Based on the 1928 story of the same name by Abraham Merritt, it stars Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, William V. Mong and Sheldon Lewis. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The film survives at the Cineteca Italiana in an alternate sound version known as an International Sound Version. The sound disks for this foreign sound version are apparently not extant.

Seven Footprints to Satan
Directed byBenjamin Christensen
Screenplay byBenjamin Christensen
Story byBenjamin Christensen
Based on7 Footprints to Satan
by Abraham Merritt
Produced byWid Gunning
Starring
CinematographySol Polito
Edited byFrank Ware
Production
companies
First National Pictures, Inc.
Distributed byFirst National Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • January 27, 1929 (1929-01-27)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
English Intertitles
Box office$129,950
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