Silent Dust is a 1949 British drama/thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Sally Gray, Stephen Murray, Derek Farr and Nigel Patrick.

[3] The title comes from lines in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751): "Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?"

Simon Rawley is reported killed in the last days of World War II, and his blind father Robert decides to build a cricket pavilion in his memory in the local village.

Planning and construction take some time and three years pass, during which Simon's widow Angela falls in love with local doctor's son Maxwell Oliver whilst they have both been posted to Occupied Germany after the war.

[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is a tense drama of a father's blind devotion to his son, and the disillusion that follows when he learns his true character.

"[5] A contemporary review in the Australian newspaper The Age credited it as "first-class screen fare ... strong drama ... [which] combines a good and arresting story with first class acting".

[6] The New York Times found the film to have "considerable merit as drama" and singled out Murray's "acutely sharp characterisation" for praise, but felt that overall it was somewhat let down by "[showing] its stage heritage in a number of static sequences which rob it of much-needed vitality".