The American Prisoner

The American Prisoner (1929)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1929-09-28
  • Runtime: 1h 14min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: British International Pictures
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Thomas Bentley

Summary

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....

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  • Carl Brisson

    as Lieutenant Cecil Stark

  • Madeleine Carroll

    as Grace Malherb

  • Cecil Barry

    as Peter Norcot

  • A. Bromley Davenport

    as Squire Malherb

  • Nancy Price

    as Lovey Lee

  • Reginald Fox

    as Captain Mainwaring

  • Carl Harbord

    as Lieutenant Burnham

  • Lucius Blake

    as Seaman Sam Cuffee

  • John Valentine

    as Commander Miller

  • Edward Dignon

    as Sailor Leverett

  • Charles Ashton

    as Gunlayer Carberry

  • Harry Terry

    as Boatswain Knapps

  • Robert English

    as Colonel Governor
Directing Thomas Bentley Director
Camera René Guissart Director of Photography
Editing Sam Simmonds Editor
Art T.H.R. Gibbings Art Direction
Writing Eden Phillpotts Novel
Writing Eliot Stannard Screenplay
Directing J. D. Davidson Assistant Director
Sound Cecil Thornton Sound Recordist
Sound John Reynders Original Music Composer
Sound Jules Sylvain Original Music Composer
Sound John Reynders Music Arranger
Sound John Reynders Conductor
Writing Garnett Weston Scenario Writer

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