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A Cottage on Dartmoor

1929·88 min·SE
Director: Anthony Asquith
ThrillerDramaCrime
The Arrival of Sound

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

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Cast

Norah Baring

Norah Baring

Sally, a Manicurist

Uno Henning

Uno Henning

Joe, a Barber's Assistant

Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Harry, a Dartmoor Farmer

Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith

Bespectacled Man in Cinema (uncredited)

J

Judd Green

Customer (uncredited)

Crew

Herbert Price

writer

Stanley Rodwell

cinematographer

Axel Lindblom

cinematographer

Anthony Asquith

writer

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