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The American Prisoner

Drama
10.0·1929·1h 14m

Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the Frenc...

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Cast

Carl Brisson

Carl Brisson

Lieutenant Cecil Stark

Madeleine Carroll

Madeleine Carroll

Grace Malherb

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Cecil Barry

Peter Norcot

A. Bromley Davenport

A. Bromley Davenport

Squire Malherb

Nancy Price

Nancy Price

Lovey Lee

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Reginald Fox

Captain Mainwaring

Carl Harbord

Carl Harbord

Lieutenant Burnham

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Lucius Blake

Seaman Sam Cuffee

DIRECTOR

Thomas Bentley

OVERVIEW

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....