The Rocks of Valpre (1935 film)
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Cinematography Sydney Blythe Duration Country United Kingdom | Director Henry Edwards Genre Crime Fiction Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Ethel M. Dell , H. Fowler Mear Release date January 1935 Cast Athene Seyler, Lewis Shaw, John Garrick, Michael Shepley, Winifred Shotter, Leslie Perrins Similar movies Scrooge (1935), East Is East (1916), Broken Journey (1948), Silver Blaze (1937), The Day Will Dawn (1942) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rocks of Valpre is a 1935 British crime film directed by Henry Edwards and starring John Garrick, Winifred Shotter and Leslie Perrins. The film was made at Twickenham Studios. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ethel M. Dell, and was released in the U.S. as High Treason. The film is set in the mid-nineteenth century with plot elements resembling the later Dreyfus Case.
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Plot summary
While staying in a small French coastal town, a young English woman falls in love with a French cavalry officer. Their romance is dramatically cut short when she is sent back to England to finish her education in a convent, while he is wrongly accused of being a spy by a rival officer and sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island. She settles down to a comfortable and respectable marriage with a wealthy Englishman. Ten years later, however, she is threatened with blackmail, and her former lover escapes from Devil's Island to come to her aid. Seriously ill from his time on the penal colony, he dies shortly afterwards.
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Critical reception
TV Guide dismissed it as a "Sappy drama."
References
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