Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Maria Marten: Murder in the Red Barn - 1935 ***



Not a bad movie, but the quality was awful. I'm very interested in the real life case that this movie is based on, so had been looking forward to seeing it for a long time.

For those of you who don't know, Maria Marten is the town beauty in early 19th century Suffolk, and is chased by many men.

She begins a relationship with one man and soon discovers that he has a temper on him which may lead to her demise.

Tod Slaughter is great as usual, suitably cheesy but also very unhinged looking. For more information on the real case (obviously parts of it have been changed in the film) go to wikipedia.

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