"Actor: Lars Hanson"

• The Informer (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/04/2017) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ased on Liam O'Flaherty's popular novel this gripping thriller is set amongst a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number, Francis, kills the chief of police he goes on the run. But when he returns to say goodbye to his mother and former lover he is cruelly betrayed by his one-time friend, Gypo. Newly restored by the BFI National Archive, with a new score from acclaimed violist/composer Garth Knox and premiered at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival, The Informer is one of the finest British films of the 1920s and deserves a place alongside other silent greats such as Blackmail, A Cottage on Dartmoor and Piccadilly. This Dual Format Edition includes the silent version alongside the rare sound version which was produced at the same time Special Features: A new restoration presented in High Definition and Standard Definition The sound version of The Informer (1929, 84 mins) Restoration Demonstration (2016, 5 mins) Shaping the Silence (2017, 10 secs) A selection of Topical Budget films from newly independent Ireland: I Want Peace (1921) Is It The Dawn? (1921) Historic Unionist Conference At Liverpool (1921) Irish Peace Imperilled By Extremists (1921) Further Pictures Of The Irish Peace (1921) Surrender of Dublin Castle (1922) British Evacuate Ireland after Hundreds of Years of Occupation (1922) Dublin's Civil War (1922) Illustrated booklet with full film credits and essays by Bryony Dixon, Garth Knox and Michael Brooke

• Flesh And The Devil | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Greta Garbo and John Gilbert star in this classic silent melodrama about a love triangle between two boyhood friends and the amoral seductress who comes between them. Best friends Leo (Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are cadets at a military academy when Leo falls madly in love with the gorgeous and aristocratic Countess Felicitas von Kletzingk (Garbo). However Felicitas neglects to tell him that she has a husband who upon discovering the affair challenges Leo to a duel. Leo kills von Kletzingk and is sentenced to five years of foreign service in Africa. Felicitas promises to wait for her brave young lover and Leo asks Ulrich to look after the grieving widow until his return. After three years Leo returns to discover that his bosom buddy has married Felicitas in his absence. She rekindles her illicit romance with Leo but refuses to give up the comforts of married life with the now wealthy Ulrich. Determined to have them both Felicitas drives the former friends into a deadly rivalry that culminates in a beautifully filmed finale that director Clarence Brown shoots almost entirely in silhouette. The use of inclement weather to invoke tragedy and mystery in the film contributes to the silent beauty of this MGM classic. Greta Garbo gives an incendiary performance as the smoldering femme fatale; she and John Gilbert supposedly began their torrid real-life affair while filming this movie. FLESH AND THE DEVIL based on the novel THE UNDYING PAST by Hermann Sudermann is a film that should not be missed.