Gardiens de phare [The Lighthouse Keepers]

N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1929 French silent film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos.

Based on the 1913 play written for the Grand-Guignol by Pierre Antier and Paul Cloquemin. A father and son agree to work as lighthouse keepers on the isolated coast of Brittany for a 30-day period. As the time passes, the father begins to realize that the son is beginning to go mad as the result of having been recently bit by a rabid dog. Jean Grémillon's second feature and last silent film.

6.5 x 4.5 inches. One Very Good plus, the other Very Good, with a vertical crease affecting the center.

[Book #170391]