Maria Marten aka The Murder in the Red Barn (PG)

UK   1935   64 mins Dir: Milton Rosmer

Squire William Corder (Tod Slaugher) wins the affection of Maria Marten (Sophie Stewart) but their happiness is cut short when she falls pregnant and demands that Corder marry her. At first he agrees, but his wicked mind is planning her murder in the ‘Red Barn’. When Maria turns up for their secret assignment she is murdered and buried beneath the barn floor. Squire Corder then departs for London, supposedly eloping with Maria Marten for a new life but will Maria’s rotting corpse stay hidden within the Red Barn.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (PG)

UK   1936    65 mins Dir: George King

Tod Slaughter stars as the Fleet Street barber who amasses a tidy fortune by cutting sailors throats and disposing of their bodies in… homemade meat pies! All goes well until he falls in love with a young woman and excited the jealously of his elderly female accomplice. Shot at the young Shepperton studios only four years old, this ‘quota quickie’ channels the Victorian Grand Guignol traditions for a grisly romp.

Tickets – £14 (standard) and £12 Concessions

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