Danger on Dartmoor

Danger on Dartmoor
Directed byDavid Eady
Screenplay byAudrey Erskine-Lindop
Dudley Leslie
Based onoriginal story by Audrey Erskine-Lindop
Dudley Leslie
Produced byMichael Barnes
StarringMarcus Evans
Simon Henderson
Debby Salter
CinematographyNorman Jones
Edited byTeddy Darvas
Raymond Poulton
Music byHarry Robinson
Production
company
Eady-Barnes Productions Ltd
Distributed byChildren's Film Foundation (UK)
Release date
  • 1980 (1980) (UK)
Running time
56 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Danger on Dartmoor is a 1980 British children's drama film directed by David Eady and starring Marcus Evans, Simon Henderson, Debby Salter, Barry Foster and Patricia Hayes.[1][2][3]

Plot

Children lost in a fog on Dartmoor face dangers including a savage dog and an escaped prisoner.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Although the basic situation may prove a trifle over-familiar to all but the smallest children, a script remarkably free of clichés (e.g., Patricia Hayes never once saying of her convict son "He's a good boy"), an intelligent use of locations, and even the occasional idea that would serve in a higher-powered thriller (e.g., Louise converting Green to the straight and narrow with statistics from her pocket calculator) make for fifty-seven minutes without a single longueur. Nice performances all round, with a special mention to Demon."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Danger on Dartmoor". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Danger on Dartmoor (1980)". Archived from the original on 13 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Danger on Dartmoor – review | cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times.
  4. ^ "Danger on Dartmoor". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 47 (552): 110. 1 January 1980 – via ProQuest.


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