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A Cottage on Dartmoor
(1929)
on

Anthony Asquith’s thriller stars Norah Baring and Uno Henning.

2007 Kino International edition

A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929), black & white, 87 minutes, not rated, with Silent Britain (2006), color and black & white, 88 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered? DVD disc, Region 1, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 2 October 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This edition has been mastered from the 2006 British Film Institute 35mm restoration of the film, produced by Erich Sargeant. The film is accompanied by a piano score composed and performed by Stephen Horne. Also included is a British Film Institute and BBC documentary, directed by David Thompson, on British films of the silent era.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other British silent era films available on DVD home video:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1912-1921)
Blackmail (1929)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon (1900-1906)
The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Hindle Wakes (1929)
The Informer (1929)
Livingstone (1925)
The Lodger (1926)
The Manxman (1929)
Moulin Rouge (1928)
Piccadilly (1929)
The Return of the Rat (1929)
The Ring (1927)
The Woman He Scorned (1929)

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