Maria Marten (1928 film)

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. When his secret lover tells him she is pregnant and asks him to marry her, the villainous squire murders her in the village barn.