The Ghost That Never Returns (Blu-ray)

Released to little notice in 1930, The Ghost That Never Returns joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquence after the first talkies stopped silent cinema dead in its tracks. The story takes place at a South American oilfield where Jose Real (Boris Ferdinandov) is imprisoned for life after attempting to unionize the workers. After ten years, a prisoner is allowed one day's liberty to visit his family -- a privilege from which no one has ever returned alive, for he is accompanied by a detective instructed to assassinate him.