Danger on Dartmoor | |
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Directed by | David Eady |
Screenplay by | Audrey Erskine-Lindop Dudley Leslie |
Based on | original story by Audrey Erskine-Lindop Dudley Leslie |
Produced by | Michael Barnes |
Starring | Marcus Evans Simon Henderson Debby Salter |
Cinematography | Norman Jones |
Edited by | Teddy Darvas Raymond Poulton |
Music by | Harry Robinson |
Production company | Eady-Barnes Productions Ltd |
Distributed by | Children's Film Foundation (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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]
Children lost in a fog on Dartmoor face dangers including a savage dog and an escaped prisoner.
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]