Fresh
With mood and action the keynote of the John Houseman production, the direction by Fritz Lang plays both hard, developing considerable movement in several rugged action sequences without neglecting suspense.
Variety Staff, Variety
Moonfleet
Wild and wonderful as the thrill-packed novel that inspired it !
1955 · 1h 27m · Approved
Adventure, Drama, History
Directed by
Fritz Lang
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Moonfleet
Overview
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Director and cast
- Fritz Lang Director
- Stewart Granger as Jeremy Fox
- George Sanders as Lord James Ashwood
- Joan Greenwood as Lady Clarista Ashwood
- Viveca Lindfors as Mrs. Minton
- Jon Whiteley as John Mohune
- Liliane Montevecchi as Gypsy
- Melville Cooper as Felix Ratsey
- Sean McClory as Elzevir Block
- Alan Napier as Parson Glennie
- John Hoyt as Magistrate Maskew
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A boy and a rakish smuggler search for a legendary lost diamond in a wonderfully stylised version of 19th century Cornwall.
Steve Jenkins, Time Out
Rotten
But, golly, that screen play by Jan Lustig and Margaret Fitts is a thoroughly boneless thing -- a hodgepodge of odd and sprawling incidents without dramatic continuity or sense!
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
A suggestive, subjective account of an orphan boy's apprenticeship to a dashing smuggler.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades.
TIME Magazine
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