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  Hans von Schlettow and Norah Baring.
Photograph: courtesy British Film Institute.
 
 
A Cottage on Dartmoor
Also known as Fången 53 in Sweden; Escaped from Dartmoor in the USA
(1929) England/Sweden
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 Aktiebolaget Svensk Filmindustri production; distributed by Pro Patria. / Produced by Harry Bruce Woolfe. Screenplay by Anthony Asquith, with continuity by Ralph Smart, from a screen 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 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Sweden by Aktiebolaget 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 British Film Institute National Archive film archive [35mm positive]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 7 October 2008.

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.

 
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