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Oct 26, 2018 · Explorer George Kourounis finds himself growing increasingly anxious as he prepares to enter a fiery sinkhole known as the “Doorway to Hell.” George Kourounis is a renowned global explorer and storm chaser who specializes in documenting extreme forces of nature including: tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, deserts, caves, avalanches and more.
- Through The Doorway
- Passing Through The Doorway
- Lew Ayres as Louie Ricarno
- James Cagney as Mileaway
- Dorothy Mathews as Doris
- Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Exile
- A Hit!
- Sources
Little Caesar came to theaters in January 1931 and The Public Enemy followed that April. But before either and coming courtesy of the same studio, Warner Brothers, The Doorway to Hellmade a huge hit with theatergoers in October 1930. The Doorway to Hellis no static early talkie. It is driven by action punctuated by violence as well as dynamic actin...
Out of the black a newspaper printing press rattles off copies which serve as the backdrop for our opening credits. Ripped from the headlines indeed! These are your headlines, 1930. Zanuck and company are just breathing life into your newspapers and getting ready to introduce you to the real Monks, Midgets and Gimpys of the streets. Newspapers will...
Lew Ayres won't turn twenty-two until a couple of months after The Doorway to Hellis released. He looks every bit as baby-faced as that statement of fact would imply. And he's riding ridiculously high at the moment. The teenager had scored a break in landing a couple of small parts at Pathe Studios where he managed to be noticed by outgoing executi...
Before Louie takes the town over we get to meet James Cagney as Mileaway as he goes around town making sure all of the right people come to that overheated meeting. The Doorway to Hell is James Cagney's second film role after Warner Brothers called him and Joan Blondell out to Hollywood for Sinners' Holiday. It's a fantastic warm-up for what would ...
Dorothy Mathews plays Doris, Louie's girlfriend and quickly his wife in The Doorway to Hell. She's a pretty blonde though a bump in the middle of what's a bit of a pretty long and sharp nose stops me from calling her a great beauty. Ayres might be too pretty for her. Cagney is just right. But even if you don't find Mathews to be a looker, she's mor...
Louie Ricarno quit the mob and once the chaos that grows out of that gets personal he finds himself pulled back in. As Louie exacts his cold-blooded vengeance both Mileaway and Doris are pushed aside and the police chief, O'Grady, begins to play a bigger role. It's O'Grady along with a portrait of Napoleon in Exile who play out Louie's final scene ...
While The Doorway to Hell delivers a satisfying pay-off it falls far short of the memorable last shots of Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar or Cagney in The Public Enemy that I easily recall to mind simply in typing out this sentence. I wouldn't call the final moments of The Doorway to Hellinconclusive by any stretch, but it lacks the definitive ...
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Jan 1, 2024 · Imagine walking through a strange, shimmering, mist-like doorway to find yourself in a different world. A world with three suns, the very same suns we see in Orion’s belt in the Winter sky.
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Sep 7, 2019 · The New York Times, in a spoilers-and-all review on Nov. 1, 1930, called “The Doorway to Hell” intelligent and exciting, adding, “With excellent directing by Archie Mayo and an excellent cast, among whom only Lewis Ayres may properly be called a star...”. Turns out there was another.
A recent review by Allmovie that was reprinted in The New York Times noted that the picture was "an innovative film and featured a lot of elements that would become standards in the gangster genre including tommy guns carried in violin cases, terrible shoot-outs, and lots of rum-running rivalry."
A recent review by Allmovie that was reprinted in The New York Times noted that the picture was "an innovative film and featured a lot of elements that would become standards in the gangster genre including tommy guns carried in violin cases, terrible shoot-outs, and lots of rum-running rivalry."
