Maria Marten (1928 film)

Maria Marten
Directed by Walter West
Produced by Harry Rowson
Starring Trilby Clark
Warwick Ward
Dora Barton
James Knight
Cinematography Phil Ross
Production
company
Harry Rowson Productions
Distributed by Ideal Film Company
Release dates
March 1928
Running time
7,430[1]
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Maria Marten is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter West starring Trilby Clark, Warwick Ward and Dora Barton.[2] It is based on the real story of the Red Barn Murder in the 1820s, and is one of five film versions of the events. The film shifted the action to fifty years earlier to the height of the Georgian era.[3] When his secret lover tells him she is pregnant and asks him to marry her, the villainous squire murders her in the village barn.

Cast

References

  1. Low p.408
  2. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/41931
  3. Chapman p.218

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