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The American Prisoner
The American Prisoner

The American Prisoner

NR·1929·74m

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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Director

Thomas Bentley

Novel

Eden Phillpotts

Scenario Writer

Garnett Weston

Screenplay

Eliot Stannard

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Released

Original Language:

English

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Keywords

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