Moonfleet (1955)

Not Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Margaret Fitts, Jan Lustig, J. Meade Falkner

Cinematographer: Robert Planck

Composer: Miklós Rózsa

Cast: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Liliane Montevecchi, Melville Cooper, Sean McClory, Alan Napier, John Hoyt

After the death of his mother, John Mohune, a 10-year-old Scots boy, who is descended from the pirate Redbeard, goes to live in his ancestral home with his mother’s old flame, who has become a gentleman smuggler, and finds himself at the centre of a dangerously thrilling adventure, in Lang’s highly stylish though only mildly diverting film, which is marred by a number of risible action sequences. Iain.Stott