Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)

Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)


Director: Fritz Lang


Moonfleet is a 1955 film directed by Fritz Lang which was inspired by the novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, although significant alterations were made in the characters and plot.

A gothic melodrama set in Britain during the eighteenth century, the film is about John Mohune, a young orphan, played by Jon Whiteley, who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox, played by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.


Cast

Stewart Granger ..... Jeremy Fox
George Sanders ..... Lord James Ashwood
Joan Greenwood ..... Lady Clarista Ashwood
Viveca Lindfors ..... Mrs. Minton
Jon Whiteley ..... John Mohune
Liliane Montevecchi ... Gypsy (as Liliane Montevecchi of the Ballet de Paris)
Melville Cooper ..... Felix Ratsey
Sean McClory ..... Elzevir Block
Alan Napier ............ Parson Glennie
John Hoyt ............ Magistrate Maskew
Donna Corcoran ...... Grace
Jack Elam ............ Damen
Dan Seymour ..... Hull
Ian Wolfe ............ Tewkesbury
Lester Matthews ..... Major Hennishaw


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048387/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonfleet_(1955_film)

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[fishila111]

its a hidden gem

[mamalbek]

@fishila111 Thanks, completely agree.

[willieluncheonette]

WOW what a beautiful film. Lang is such a great director.

[Calburtonreid]

remember watching this as a chissler , great film and so much fun

[rickbandana]

The best film ever made.

[Stereolabdream]

Lang is brilliant- as subtle as a sack of bricks, but, where in others this would be laughable, he always just....just...keeps things the right side of startling...

[carameloasakura]

Boy...

[silenceseaandsky]

A world of smugglers and thieves, the nobility, military and peasants equally corrupt ,full of caves, tombs, wells, gallows, graveyards and demonlike statues. But it all has the carefully arranged beauty of old book illustrations and M.Roszas score wich reminds us of old folk songs.So we see all of this through the eyes of a boy looking for his real/surrogate father.

The end F.Lang originally intended was S.Granger´s Fox sailing deadly wounded into the sea. Fate is inevitable. Thank you Mamalbek

[SissyJupe09]

Thank you for uploading this!!! I've been trying to find it like crazy!!!

[Poldark3]

Brilliant film,love every minute of it!