The Pit and the Pendulum

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

Cast

Darwin Karr

as Alonzo

Fraunie Fraunholz

as Pedro - the Inquisator

Blanche Cornwall

Joseph Levering

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