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Anthony Asquith, 1929, the last great British silent: a barber's assistant (Uno Henning) loves a manicurist (Norah Baring) who loves a customer. When sound arrives in a village cinema, the film becomes a thriller. Shot in Sweden and Dartmoor; British Instructional. Asquith cuts like a man who has seen the Russians. The razor, the moor, the projection booth. It is a late silent about jealousy as a close-up, and about a medium that is about to start talking.
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A silent about the night the talkies arrive. The village cinema screens a sound picture and Asquith cuts between the screen, the faces, and a man for whom the noise changes nothing. Then a razor. The last great British silent, and it knows what it is watching.
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