A Cottage on Dartmoor

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Escaped From Dartmoor (aka A Cottage On Dartmoor) represented director Anthony Asquith's entree into the world of talking pictures. Compared by contemporary critics to the best that Hitchcock had to offer, the film concentrates on murder amongst the lower classes. Things go from bad to worse when Joe (Ugo Henning), a barber, falls in love with Sally (Nora Baring), a manicurist. When foreign customer Harry (Hans Schettow) likewise falls for Sally, Joe responds by slitting the man's throat. This earns him a stiff prison term, but he manages to escape for more deviltry. Completed as a silent film, Escaped from Dartmoor was converted into a part-soundie with the inclusion of a five-minute scene in which the three main characters attend a talking picture show. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Screen: Color
• Audio: Silent

AWARDS

• Berlin International Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2007

• Telluride Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2005

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Norah Baring - Sally
       Uno Henning - Joe
       Hans Adalbert von Schlettow - Harry
       Judd Green - Customer

• Director:

  Anthony Asquith

• Producer:

  H. Bruce Woolfe

• Screenwriter:

  Anthony Asquith

• Cinematographer:

  Stanley Rodwell, M. Lindblom

• Composer (Music Score):

  Willian Hodgdon

• Art Director:

  Ian Campbell-Gray

• Short Story Author:

  Herbert Price