A Cottage on Dartmoor
AKA Fången 53 in Sweden; Escaped from Dartmoor in the USA
(1929) British-Swedish
B&W : Eight reels / 7528 feet
Directed by Anthony Asquith

Cast: Norah Baring [Sally, a manicurist], Uno Henning [Joe, the barber’s assistant], Hans von Schlettow (Hans Adalbert Schlettow) [Harry, a Dartmoor farmer], Judd Green [a customer], Anthony Asquith [cinema attendee in glasses]

British Instructional Films, Limited, and Svensk Filmindustri coproduction; distributed by Pro Patria. / Produced by Harry Bruce Woolfe. Screenplay by Anthony Asquith, with continuity by Ralph Smart, from a story by Herbert Price. Art direction by Ian Campbell-Gray + [Arthur Woods]. Assistant director Frank Bundy. Cinematography by Stanley Rodwell + [Axel Lindblom]. Music composed and conducted by William Hodgson. / Released October 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was released in Sweden by Svensk Filmindustri on 27 January 1930. The film was released in the USA by British Instructional Films (America), Incorporated, on 11 April 1930. The film was modified with additional talking sequences and rereleased in the United Kingdom on 18 August 1930. One talking sequence in the film includes a talkie clip seen at a movie theater. The film was rereleased in the USA by Harold Auten in 1932. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama: Crime.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the National Film Archive of the British Film Institute film archive [35mm positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 3 October 2007.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 516; Gifford-British n. 08730; Limbacher-Feature p. 50; McIlroy-Sweden p. 23; Perry-British pp. 64, 60o, 300-301; Wakeman-World pp. 9, 12 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.