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Panania Star Theatre opened on April 30, 1952 with Robert Ryan in 20th Century-Fox’s 3D spectacular “Inferno” plus Jeanne Crain in “City of Bad Men”.

Inferno is a 1953 American thriller drama starring Robert Ryan, William Lundigan and Rhonda Fleming, directed by Roy Ward Baker. It was shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D, with stereophonic sound.

Inferno was one of the best and last movies to be made in 3-D during the boom in the early ‘50s.

Certainly its use of space emphasized the dramatic possibilities of 3-D and reveals, as more than one person has observed, that the device had largely been squandered in other films made at the time.[6]

Film critic Dennis Schwartz liked the film and wrote,

Inferno loses something when not seen in 3-D as intended when released, nevertheless it remains as a taut survival thriller. It makes good use of 3-D, in fact it does it better than most other such gimmicky films … The desert photography by Lucien Ballard is stunning.

Contributed by Greg Lynch -