A Cottage on Dartmoor

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"Directed by Anthony Asquith (better known for The Browning Version and The Way to the Stars) A Cottage on Dartmoor is an embroiled melodrama, a tale of love and revenge, set on the bleak landscape of Dartmoor. In a small-town hairdressing salon, a young barber, Joe (Uno Henning) is trying to court Sally, the beautiful manicurist (Nora Baring) and asks her out. She rejects him in favour of the security offered by an older, wealthier farmer. In a jealous rage Joe slashes the farmer with a razor and is sent to Dartmoor prison for attempted murder. He escapes over the moors to find Sally, who does not know if he has come to kill her or ask her forgiveness, and it's at this point that the film begins. The rest of the story is told in flashback.

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Release:

1930

Running Time:

84 min

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Contains mild threat and violence

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Anthony Asquith

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Edward Hutchings
Cut!
07 December 2011
Better known for his sterling Terence Rattigan adaptations ‘The Winslow Boy’ (1948) and ‘The Browning Version’ (1951), Anthony Asquith’s recently re-appraised silent melodrama is perhaps the biggest reminder of how much the age of the DVD has allowed us better access to such hidden gems. Edited with the quick-chopping fury of a Darren Aronofsky movie, this pacy and occasionally very funny film looks at a love triangle forming at a busy barber’s shop: hairdresser Joe (Uno Henning) is madly in love with manicurist Sally (Norah Baring) but can’t quite seal the deal, a fact of which Dartmoor farmer and regular customer Harry takes full advantage. As Joe’s jealousy escalates, Asquith’s direction takes on more weird and wonderful forms, referencing silent comedy, German expressionism and Russian montage, sometimes all in the same scene. When violence erupts, it’s swift and brutal, but the film’s main pleasure is its pragmatic handling of the central romance.
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Patrick Clarke
Classic
20 July 2010
A true British Classic and free as well.
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Dang! This can't be accessed from your region. Soo
13 April 2010
everybody have such problem now? or uk only?
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Kelechi Ehenulo
Powerful and moving
03 February 2010
A Cottage on Dartmoor is powerful and moving. Because this is a silent film, it is beautifully shot with a lot of emphasis on its attention to detail. The story is haunting, tense and chilling. Excellent stuff.
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Robert Young
Original
01 December 2009
A beautifully shot silent film telling the story of an escape from Dartmoor prison. There is a particularly powerful scene in a barber shot involving razor blades and a tender loving touch, I will give no more away because you should really see this movie.
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