The Moonraker (1958)
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
- Released
- 1958-08-02
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama, War
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- David MacDonald, Robert Hall, Wilfred Eades, Alistair Bell
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 10 votes
Cast
- George Baker as Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker
- Sylvia Syms as Anne Wyndham
- Marius Goring as Colonel John Beaumont
- Peter Arne as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
- Clive Morton as Lord Harcourt
- Gary Raymond as Charles Stuart
- Richard Leech as Henry Strangeways
- Iris Russell as Judith Strangeways
- Michael Anderson Jr. as Martin Strangeways
- Paul Whitsun-Jones as Parfitt
- John Le Mesurier as Cromwell
- Patrick Troughton as Captain Wilcox