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The American Prisoner (1929)
Directed by Thomas Bentley
Drama · 1h 14m
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....
Cast
Carl Brisson
Lieutenant Cecil Stark
Madeleine Carroll
Grace Malherb
C
Cecil Barry
Peter Norcot
A. Bromley Davenport
Squire Malherb
Nancy Price
Lovey Lee
R
Reginald Fox
Captain Mainwaring
Carl Harbord
Lieutenant Burnham
L
Lucius Blake
Seaman Sam Cuffee
J
John Valentine
Commander Miller
E
Edward Dignon
Sailor Leverett
C
Charles Ashton
Gunlayer Carberry
Harry Terry
Boatswain Knapps
Crew
- Director
- Thomas Bentley
- Screenplay
- Eliot Stannard
- Novel
- Eden Phillpotts
- Director of Photography
- René Guissart
- Original Music Composer
- John Reynders, Jules Sylvain
- Editor
- Sam Simmonds
Details
- Release date
- 1929-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- British International Pictures