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Grace Kingsley of the Los Angeles Times gave the actors high marks.

She credited Hart with doing his " usual excellent work " and found Glaum to be " a really fascinating vampire.

" Kingsley paid special note to Standing's performance as the reverend, calling it " one of the most subtle, but at the same time of the most sincere bits of film acting of his entire career ," a performance exhibiting " intelligence and imagination ... in the very highest degree.

" Kingsley found the film to be " marvelously well done " but took exception with the awkward dialect in the title cards :" C. Gardner Sullivan appears to have written ' Hell's Hinges ' for the purpose of allowing us to look our fill on fire and fights.

Certain it is the thing is marvelously well done.

There is a burning dance hall with men and women entrapped, which fairly makes you gasp, and there is a ' beau-oo-tiful ' free-for-all fight between the sheep and the goats of ' Hell's Hinges.

' All this is lovely enough in its way to make for forgiveness of the dialect of the subtitles, a dialect which ' never was on land or sea.

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