This special screening of this lavish late silent masterpiece is part of Cinema Rediscovered’s 10th Anniversary programme.

Doors open at 12pm. Before the screening at 1pm resident Cinema Organist, Bernie Brown, will give us an introduction to the history of cinema organ, playing the Curzon’s Christie organ before the film is introduced by critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson (author of The Curse of Queen Kelly).

The great silent film star Gloria Swanson plays the orphan girl whose life is turned upside down when the prince (Walter Byron) becomes obsessed with her, angering his betrothed queen.

Basing his reconstruction on von Stroheim’s original scripts, Milestone Films’ Dennis Doros and Amy Heller employed multiple techniques to recreate the film’s lurid dénouement.

This vital new digital reconstruction, overseen by Milestone Films’ Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, brings von Stroheim’s original script to life, and the result is Queen Kelly in its most complete and spectacular form to date.