Escape from Dartmoor
1930 · Movie · NR · 88 min · ★ 7.2 · 75% critics
A barber’s assistant becomes dangerously fixated on a co-worker and can’t handle the attention she gives a well-off customer. As jealousy spirals, the story builds from everyday workplace flirtation into a tense pursuit that frames the past through a charged present-day confrontation on the moors.
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Details
- Original title
- A Cottage on Dartmoor
- Years
- 1930
- Release date
- 1929-10-01
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Max quality
- SD
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (29 votes)
About
If you enjoy moody, suspenseful silent dramas about obsession and rivalry, this should land well, especially if you like the uneasy pull of Gaslight or Nightmare Alley; Not for you if you want fast pacing or light romance.
Pros: tense obsession-driven drama; striking silent-era style; memorable cinema sequence | Cons: runs a bit long; melodramatic at times; thin character depth
Themes
- jealousy
- love triangle
- silent film
- barbershop
- manicurist
- escaped prisoner
- isolated house
- devon
- dartmoor
Cast & crew
Norah Baring
as Sally, a Manicurist
Uno Henning
as Joe, a Barber's Assistant
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
as Harry, a Dartmoor Farmer
Anthony Asquith
as Bespectacled Man in Cinema (uncredited)
- JG
Judd Green
as Customer (uncredited)
Directed by Anthony Asquith