(3.5 stars) "Hell's House" is a pre-code, early Hollywood film feat. the early film appearances of Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien
A young Bette Davis, the struggling actress was trying to make it in Hollywood.
Close to being terminated by Universal Studios a year prior, fortunately she was defended by cinematographer Karl Freund and was given a chance to be in a motion picture.
Davis would make her debut in "The Bad Sister" and would star in a few other films in 1931, but nothing that the actress could capitalize on. But Universal Studios renewed her contract for three more months and lent out to various movie companies.
In 1932, she was lent to B.F. Zeidman Productions Ltd. for the movie "Hell's House" which would be directed by silent film director Howard Higgen and would star Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien (who would later star in the James Cagney film "Angels with Dirty Faces" and the Ronald Reagan film "Knute Rockne All American") and would star teen actor Junior Durkin (who would play Huckleberry Finn in "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn") as the main protagonist Jimmy...
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