1-218-714 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Harry Lachman, American artist, designer and film director, 1933. After establishing a reputation as a successful Post-Impressionist painter Lachman (1886-1975) began a career as a film director. His best remembered films are the Laurel and Hardy picture 'Our Relations' (1936) and 'Dante's Inferno' (1937) which starred Spencer Tracy and contained a vivid 10 minute depiction of hell which drew strongly on Lachman's artistic background.