Release Date: Jan 1, 1930 Wide
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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
Jan 1, 1930 Wide
Oct 9, 2007
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An engaging amalgam of romance, murder, and cricket matches.
Displays a wealth of sophisticated visual idiom.
Produced at the cusp of sound, Anthony Asquith's brilliant silent thriller is as visually dynamic and cinematically creative as Hitchcock's best silent efforts.
an amazing film!~ i'm shocked i had never heard of this til a few weeks ago. this late silent is easily the equal of anything hitchcock was doing. it's a shame asquith's later work doesn't show the vitality and beauty of this early thriller. beginning with a prison escape, most of the film plays as an extended
August 31, 2011
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COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR: an expressionistic and claustrophobic account of sexual obsession and jealousy, very Hitchockian in the way it deals with the resulting crescendo of suspense, especially in connection with a key throat-cutting in a barber's chair incident. Asquith was a director who grew stodgy as his career
February 10, 2011Super Reviewer
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