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William S. Hart as Blaze Tracy, 1916, produced by Thomas Ince, directed by Charles Swickard from a C. Gardner Sullivan script. A weak minister and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges. Saloon man Silk Miller hires Tracy to run them out; Tracy falls for Faith instead. The church burns. Clara Williams is Faith. Joseph August photographed it. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1994. The town's name is the argument.
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The town is named for what it is, and the church burns. Hart, hired to run a weak minister out, falls for the minister's sister instead. August photographs a place built to be destroyed. Watch him ride toward the camera through the smoke. The land does not survive this one, and that is the point.
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