Moonfleet
In the mid 18th century, on the southern coast of England, orphaned John Mohune seeks out Jeremy Fox, a roguish gentleman who has been appointed the child’s guardian. Unwilling to be passed along to another custodian, young Mohune remains in Moonfleet and discovers a nest of secrets lurking within the rocky, windswept town. Rather than exaggerating the story into something it wasn't, lang zeroed in on the true essence of Moonfleet: a child’s-eye view of the mysteries of adulthood and the horrors of 18th-century pirates. Hoping for a colorful spectacular, MGM commissioned the film in Cinemascope and Eastman color. Lang’s aim was romanticism – not the stuff of flowery love stories but the haunted, often tragic literature of Goethe, Shelley or Poe. “If you would make a contemporary horror story, you would use a different atmosphere”, Lang explained. “But if there are ghosts – which there are in this because they think the smugglers are ghosts – and it plays in a churchyard and so on, you have to make it romantic.” (Bret Wood)
- Stewart Granger - Jeremy Fox
- George Sanders - Lord James Ashwood
- Joan Greenwood - Lady Clarista Ashwood
- Viveca Lindfors - Mrs. Minton
- Jan Lustig
- Margaret Fitts nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von John Meade Falkner
- Robert Planck
- Wesley C. Miller
- Albert Akst
- Miklós Rózsa
- Vicente Gómez
- Cedric Gibbons
- Hans Peters
- Edwin B. Willis
- Richard Pfefferle
- Walter Plunkett
Hollywood Classics