1929 · silent · drama · thriller
A Cottage on Dartmoor
Directed by Anthony Asquith1h 28m1929
A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.
Our read: A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive silent · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured silent / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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