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Cottage on Dartmoor (A)

Country: UK, Language: English, 88 mins

Original Title

Escape from Dartmoor
  • Director: Anthony Asquith
  • Writer: Herbert Price; Anthony Asquith
  • Producer: H. Bruce Woolfe

CGiii Comment

A piece of cinematic history by Asquith - a privileged, closeted alcoholic.

Technically, it's rather impressive - many a film student could learn a great deal from this.

But...in truth, it's hackneyed melodrama.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. A jealous barber's assistant is enraged by the attentions that his manicurist girlfriend pays to a customer. He threatens the customer with an open razor and lands in jail.

Cast & Characters

Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Harry a Dartmoor Farmer;
Uno Henning as Joe a Barber's Assistant;
Norah Baring as Sally a Manicurist;
Anthony Asquith as Bespectacled man in cinema;
Judd Green as Customer