2008 Festival
2008 Highlights
The full programme for the 2008 Festival will be available shortly. To whet your appetite meanwhile, the following feature films and events have been confirmed. The programme covers the gamut of crime fiction from the macabre and murderous antics of the sinister Dr Fu Manchu to the rigorous detection methods of Sherlock Holmes, through Rene Clair's surrealist Fantome du Moulin Rouge and Danish director A.W Sandberg's witty, romantic detective in The Hill Park Mystery. Highlights include
Chicago (1927) Sparky silent film version of the story that later became the musical Chicago. Directed by Frank Urson under supervision of De Mille this is a vibrant telling of the tale of Roxie Hart and her attempts to beat a murder rap in the most cynical city in the world. See the film that inspired the musical that inspired the film of the music...
Red Pearls, (1930) Walter Forde's psychological drama about a Japanese merchant who tries to drive his victim mad by sending him letters from beyond the grave
Henry Edwards' The Bargain (1921) starring Chrissie White and actor/director Edwards in a tale of fraud, deception and family ties as a man purporting to be a long lost son returns from the Australian outback to claim his inheritance from his dying father.
Graham Cutts' classic, The Rat (1925), starring Ivor Novello as the eponymous anti-hero in the first of the trilogy set in 1920s Parisian low life and underworld. Mae Marsh is the Rat's long-suffering girlfriend, Isabel Jeans, the infinitely more interesting vamp who seduces him.
At the Villa Rose (1920), director Maurice Elvey's classic locked-room murder mystery set in the fashionable and decadent expatriate community in Monte Carlo.
Carmen von St Pauli (1928) German director Erich Waschneck's brilliant drama set in Hamburg's dockside gangland featuring German stars Willi Fritsch and the delicious Jenny Jugo - who rivals Clara Bow for sheer screen presence. The film also shows there is more to German film than expressionism
The Fantome du Moulin Rouge (1924) combines Grande Guignol, surrealism and playful avant garde film tricks. It's the tale of a man who's spirit is released from his body to allow him to torment and trick his family but ultimately there's a race against time when his spirit needs to get back into his lifeless body before the autopsy begins....
The Whip (1917) more horse nobbling courtesy of Maurice Tourneur, based on the famous British Stage play by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. In the words of the legendary Tallulah Bankhead "The Whip was a blood-and-thunder melodrama in four acts and fourteen scenes imported from London's Drury Lane Theatre. It boiled with villainy and violence. Its plot embraced a twelve-horse race on a treadmill (for the Gold Cup at Newmarket), a Hunt Breakfast embellished by fifteen dogs, an auto-smash-up, the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, and a train wreck with a locomotive hissing real steam. It boasted a dissolute earl and a wicked marquis, and a heroine whose hand was sought by both knave and hero. It was a tremendous emotional dose for anyone as stage-struck and impressionable as our heroine. "
The Hill Park Mystery (1923) (a.k.a Shattered Nerves) features a detective trying to clear the name of a woman accused of murder, who finds matters complicated when he becomes romantically attached to his client.
Other highlights will include episodes from The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and tales from The Old Man in the Corner , Luke McKernan's illustrated presentation to mark the centenary of the 1908 Olympics in the UK, a session on Melodrama along with a packed programme of presentations, screenings and social events.
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