Moonfleet (1955 film)

Moonfleet
Directed by	Fritz Lang
Produced by	John Houseman
Written by	J. Meade Falkner Jan Lustig Margaret Fitts
Starring	Stewart Granger George Sanders Joan Greenwood Viveca Lindfors
Music by	Vicente Gómez Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography	Robert H. Planck
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	June 24, 1955 (US)
Running time	87 min.
Language	English
Budget	$1,955,000[1]
Box office	$1,680,000[2]

Moonfleet is a 1955 film directed by Fritz Lang which was inspired by the novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner,^[3] 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.^[4]

References

1. ^ 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger’, Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
2. ^ 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger’, Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
3. ^ Moonfleet at IMDB
4. ^ Halliwell's Film Guide, 6th edition, 1987, p. 703

External links

• Moonfleet at the Internet Movie Database
• Moonfleet at AllRovi