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 1913 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.
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.
Cast
John Garrick as Louis de Monteville
Winifred Shotter as Christine Wyndham
Leslie Perrins as Captain Rodolphe
Michael Shepley as Trevor Mordaunt
Lewis Shaw as Noel Wyndham
Athene Seyler as Aunt Philippa
Agnes Imlay as Madamoiselle Gautier
Critical reception
TV Guide dismissed it as a "Sappy drama."
See also
The Rocks of Valpre (1919)