Film · 1929 · 74 min

The American Prisoner (1929)

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....

Directed by: Thomas Bentley

Cast: Carl Brisson, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil Barry, A. Bromley Davenport, Nancy Price, Reginald Fox, Carl Harbord, Lucius Blake

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