The Hell Diggers is a 1921 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Frank Urson from a short story, The Hell Diggers, by Byron Morgan. Wallace Reid and Lois Wilson star. Like most silent films of that time, it is in the public domain and is lost.
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Hell Diggers
^ The Hell Diggers at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Hell Diggers
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