A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)

Directed by

Anthony Asquith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom, Sweden

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A barber and a manicurist work in a London salon. The barber is obsessed with the manicurist, and a customer becomes a romantic rival. Their love triangle leads to violence and a manhunt across the moors of Dartmoor.

tensesuspensefulmelancholicatmosphericvisually starkbroodingquietly dramaticgritty

What happens

A Cottage on Dartmoor (a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor) is a 1929 British part-talkie sound film, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Norah Baring, Uno Henning and Hans Adalbert Schlettow. The cameraman was Stanley Rodwell. In addition to a sequence with audible dialogue or a talking sequence, the film also featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects and English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Klangfilm Tobis sound recording process. A cut down edited silent version was made for theatres that had not yet converted to sound but this version is no longer extant. It was the last of Asquith's films before fully converting to all-talking pictures. The film was produced during the transition period from silents to talkies in British cinema, a point which is referenced in the film itself. The film is extant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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