The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys.
Made at Isleworth Studios,[1] and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-stricken author so depressed that he agrees to sell his soul to the Devil.
[2] The 1895 novel by Marie Corelli depicted the Devil sympathetically, a controversial choice that spurred significant sales.
In the commercially successful film adaptation, Satan appears as a handsome, wealthy prince.
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