A cottage on Dartmoor
(DVD)

A cottage on Dartmoor originally produced as a motion picture in 1929; Silent Britain originally broadcast in 2006.

[A cottage on Dartmoor] story by Herbert C. Price ; photography by Stanley Rodwell ; new piano score composed and performed by Stephen Horne. [Silent Britain] photography, Louis Caulfield ; music, Neil Brand ; editor, Jan Cholawo.

[A cottage on Dartmoor] Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow.

[Silent Britain] Presenter, Matthew Sweet.

A tense, shocking thriller that evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. It opens with the escape of a prisoner from Dartmoor prison, and flashes back to show how a love triangle led him to jail. A perfect companion to Dartmoor is Silent Britain, a feature-length documentary of the golden age of British filmmaking. The first documentary to celebrate the visionary filmmakers and the unsung stars of Britain's own Cinema, Silent Britain is fully illustrated throughout with film clips, from a British comedy in 1898 to Britain's first talkie in 1929.

DVD, full screen (1.33.1) presentation; NTSC.

[A cottage on Dartmoor] Silent film with English intertitles and piano accompaniment. [Silent Britain] In English.