Maria Marten (1913 film)

Maria Marten (1913 film)

Maria Marten is a 1913 British silent melodrama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Nessie Blackford, Fred Groves and Douglas Payne.[1] It was based on the 1827 Red Barn Murder. A Suffolk squire murders a young pregnant woman who demands that he marries her. The story of Maria Marten was a popular stage melodrama of the Victorian era, and five films based on the story were made between 1902 and 1935. Its fill name is Maria Marten, or: The Murder in the Red Barn.

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