The Sorrows of Satan

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The Sorrows of Satan

Released Oct 12, 1926

1h 30m

Drama

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Satan uses a man to show God that he can corrupt anyone.

Oliver Claxton

The New Yorker

It is over-long and repetitious, and without the slightest trace of suspense.

Mar 17, 2023

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Wilella Waldorf

New York Post

All this is undoubtedly effective as far as it goes.

Sep 22, 2020

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Variety Staff

Variety

D.W. Griffith again symbolizes good and evil, meanwhile out-DeMilling DeMille in sets and Bacchanalian revels, plus liberal suggestiveness. For all of that, the picture is overshadowed in story and cast by its superb photography.

Mar 26, 2009

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Carl Sandburg

Chicago Daily News

Sorrows of Satan has the sense of vastness, chaos, originality, and sudden interludes of unimagined beauty that make Griffith so much akin, in his present stage, to Walt Whitman, the poet.

Dec 14, 2021

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Robert E. Sherwood

LIFE

[Griffith] has made some of the most flagrantly bad scenes that it has ever been my ill luck to witness; he has made other scenes of startling power.

Oct 5, 2021

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Valerii Ege D

That opening scene. Angels meet at the Stairways to Heaven. Imagine that scene with today's technology and CGI. Noted for the future.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/04/24

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Audience Member

An unusual melodrama which nevertheless stands as one of Griffithâ(TM)s most forgettable films, although perhaps the fact that this was a studio film rather than one of his independent productions can be held as a plausible reason. Menjou is good as the suave and deceitful embodiement of Satan.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

Satan uses a man to show God that he can corrupt anyone.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter: Forrest Halsey
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 1926, Original
Runtime: 1h 30m