An escaped convict flees across the desolate misty moors, clambering over boulders past gnarled trees silhouetted against the sky. The striking use of landscape in the opening sequence of A Cottage on Dartmoor is just one of the “flashes of inspiration” the New York Times detected in Anthony Asquith's narration of this tale of unrequited love-seen at its best in a new print from (Britain's) National Film and Television Archive made to mark Asquith's centenary year. Recounted through flashback, the story features Joe, a barber, whose obsessive love for a manicurist drives him to attack his rival with a razor, for which he is imprisoned. The film was released a few months after Blackmail and has been unjustly neglected in comparison, as its visual ingenuity rivals Hitchcock's....(T)he juxtaposition of seemingly disparate but telling images veers towards the surreal....Expressionist lighting and creative framing heighten the protagonist's anguish and isolation. All nicely balanced with doses of comic relief....An enjoyable revelation.