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Writers:
Anthony Asquith (scenario)
Herbert Price (story)
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Release Date:
11 April 1930 (USA) more
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Plot:
Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. A jealous barber's assistant... more | add synopsis
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A Cottage On Dartmoor d: Anthony Asquith
 (From Alt Film Guide. 30 October 2009, 3:36 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (in credits order)
Norah Baring ... Sally, a manicurist
Uno Henning ... Joe, a barber's assistant
Hans Adalbert Schlettow ... Harry, a Dartmoor farmer (as Hans Schlettow)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anthony Asquith ... Bespectacled man in cinema (uncredited)
Judd Green ... Customer (uncredited)
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Directed by
Anthony Asquith 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Anthony Asquith  scenario
Herbert Price  story

Produced by
H. Bruce Woolfe .... producer (uncredited)
 
Original Music by
William Hodgson 
 
Cinematography by
Stanley Rodwell (photography)
Axel Lindblom (uncredited)
 
Art Direction by
Ian Campbell-Gray 
Arthur B. Woods (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Frank Bundy .... assistant director (uncredited)
 
Music Department
William Hodgson .... conductor
 
Other crew
Ralph Smart .... continuity (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Escape from Dartmoor (USA)
Fången 53 (Sweden)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (theatre scene) (soundtrack lost) | Silent
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Featured in Silent Britain (2006) (TV) more

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9 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
Grand Cottage, moor please!, 8 June 2006
8/10
Author: FilmFlaneur from London

COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR: an expressionistic and claustrophobic account of sexual obsession and jealousy, very Hitchockian in the way it deals with the resulting crescendo of suspense, especially in connection with a key throat-cutting in a barber's chair incident. Asquith was a director who grew stodgy as his career entered into the sound era, viz his terribly British adaptions of Rattigan, but the present film (1929) is rather an eye opener. One standout scene is set within a cinema, partly a comment on the imminent and creatively burdensome coming of clunky sound, and which contains an extended eye opening use of editing, cutting about within an audience as the beady-eyed boy friend watches his victims - a bravura sequence which ought to be much better known to cineastes.

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