Seven Footprints to Satan

Seven Footprints to Satan
Directed by	Benjamin Christensen
Screenplay by	Benjamin Christensen[1]
Story by	Benjamin Christensen[1]
Based on	7 Footprints to Satan by Abraham Merritt
Produced by	Wid Gunning
Starring	Creighton Hale Thelma Todd Sheldon Lewis William V. Mong
Cinematography	Sol Polito[1]
Edited by	Frank Ware[1]
Production companies	First National Pictures, Inc.[1]
Distributed by	First National Pictures, Inc.[2]
Release date	January 27, 1929 (1929-01-27)
Country	United States[2]
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) English Intertitles
Box office	$129,950[3]

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.^[2] The film survives at the Cineteca Italiana in an alternate sound version known as an International Sound Version.^[4] The sound disks for this foreign sound version are apparently not extant.