Overview
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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Setting
Set in Devon and London
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Music
Music by Ernest Irving
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie
Details
- Director
- Writer
- John GalsworthyStory
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 28, 1930
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cast
Gerald du MaurierCaptain Matt Denant
Mabel PoultonThe Girl in Hyde Park
Ian HunterWilliam Brown, the Plainclothesman
Gordon HarkerConvict 272
Edna BestThe Gentlewoman In Bed
Horace HodgesThe Gentleman at Stream-side
Lewis CassonLandowner Browning
Madeleine CarrollDora
Marie NeyGrace, Dora's sister
Austin TrevorThe Vicar
Felix AylmerThe Prison Governor
Jean CadellThe Picnic Woman
Phyllis KonstamThe Woman Hiker
Ann CassonBetty, the Autograph Hound
Nigel BruceConstable at Vicarage- Eric Cowley
Fred Groves
S. J. Warmington- David Hawthorne
- Edward Addison
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