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The American Prisoner

1929-09-28 en 74m
Drama
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....

Director

Thomas Bentley

Art Direction

T.H.R. Gibbings

Director of Photography

René Guissart

Editor

Sam Simmonds

Novel

Eden Phillpotts

Screenplay

Eliot Stannard

sword fight harp napoleonic wars escaped prisoner georgian or regency era dartmoor

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • British International Pictures