A CLASSIC silent film screening followed by a question and answer session with film critic Mark Kermode can be enjoyed at Bridport Electric Palace.

The Louise Brooks film Beggars Of Life from 1928 will be shown on Sunday September 16 with live musical accompaniment from The Dodge Brothers.

Following the film, there will be a Q&A with Mark Kermode (The Observer chief Film Critic, BBC TV Presenter), Neil Brand (writer & presenter BBC 4 series ‘Sounds of Cinema : The Music That Made The Movies’) and Dr Mike Hammond (Associate Professor, Film Department, University of Southampton).

Following his Best Picture win at the inaugural Academy Awards, William A. Wellman made Beggars of Life, an adaptation of Jim Tully’s best-selling classic of hobo literature. This gripping drama casts cinema icon Louise Brooks as a girl on the lam after killing her lecherous adoptive father.

Dressed in boy’s clothes, she navigates through the dangerous tramp underworld with the help of a handsome and devoted drifter (Richard Arlen) and encounters the dangerous, but warm-hearted hobo legend Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery).

Loaded with stunning visuals and empathetic performances, this dark, realistic drama is Brooks’ best American film and a masterpiece of late-silent era feature films.

The Dodge Brothers have played to silent films at the finest venues in the land, The Barbican, The National Film Theatre, BFI, The National Media Museum and anywhere that the high art of playing live to silent film is appreciated. In 2014 The Dodge Brothers were the first band to accompany a silent film at Glastonbury Festival.

Our approach is simple: we derive our music from what might have been played in the cinemas in towns such as Clarksdale Mississippi, or Troy Alabama.

We bring the jug band/skiffle style to westerns and hobo films. Each and every performance they give is unique.

*Beggars of Life, Bridport Electric Palace, Bridport, Sunday, September 16, doors open at 6pm, show starts at 7pm. Contact the box office for tickets.