Maria Marten (1928)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 11, 1928Release Date
Maria Marten (1928)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 11, 1928Release Date
Plot.
1820. A squire kills his pregnant mistress to marry a heiress but is exposed by his mother's dream.
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Maria Marten is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter West starring Trilby Clark, Warwick Ward and Dora Barton. 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. This was the last of the silent film adaptations of the Maria Marten story, and its success paved the way for the much better 1935 sound film remake starring Tod Slaughter. A 35mm print of the 1928 silent film exists in the British Film Institute's archives.