Silent cinema

The Hill Park Mystery

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This pacy detective thriller is a great example of the best of Danish silent cinema – a real charmer.

  • Director

    AW Sandberg

  • With

    Gorm Schmidt, Olga d’Org, Egill Rostrup, Peter Nielsen

  • Denmark 1923. 75min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

  • With live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne

Jimmie Brand is a police reporter suffering from shattered nerves. Sent away to recuperate, what should he see but a beautiful girl murder a man in broad daylight? It’s love and a busman’s holiday from then on in. Witty, bright and modern, The Hill Park Mystery is a great example of the best of Danish silent cinema – a real charmer.

Digitally restored in 2001 by Danske Filminstitut from the original nitrate negative.

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