Sir Arne's Treasure

Mauritz Stiller, Svenska Bio, 1919, from Selma Lagerlöf. Three Scottish mercenaries, winter 16th century, murder Sir Arne and take his treasure; Elsalill (Mary Johnson) shelters one of them and learns too late what he did. Julius Jaenzon shoots ice, a frozen sea, a sleigh that will not reach the ship. He had already used double exposure here, a year before The Phantom Carriage. SFI keeps the tinted restoration that plays as a chase across a country that wants the money back.