May 8th
A Cottage on Dartmoor** (U)
Electric Palace, Harwich

GB 1927. British International. 75m. bw. silent(sound version with soundtrack missing)

An escaped convict seeks out the girl who came between him and the man he tried to murder.
Primal silent melodrama, an early and surprisingly zesftul outing for this director who settled into more conservative drama in the decades to come. This essentially simple story is quite gritty, realistic and expressionistic (in the manner of early Hitchcock), with some interesting observations about the transition from silents to sound films - one key scene takes place inside a cinema.

Written by: Anthony Asquith, Herbert Price.
Producer: Bruce Woolfe.
Director: Anthony Asquith.
Starring: Uno Henning, Horah Baring, Hans Schlettow, Anthony Asquith.
Photography: Stanley Rodwell.

Musical Accompaniment: Stephen Horne.