The Moonraker

Aug 2, 1958

1h 22m

★ 6.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Drama

War

Production Companies

Associated British Picture Corporation

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Cast

Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker

George Baker

Anne Wyndham

Sylvia Syms

Colonel John Beaumont

Marius Goring

Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler

Peter Arne

Lord Harcourt

Clive Morton

Charles Stuart

Gary Raymond

Henry Strangeways

Richard Leech

Judith Strangeways

Iris Russell

Martin Strangeways

Michael Anderson Jr.

Parfitt

Paul Whitsun-Jones

Cromwell

John Le Mesurier

Captain Wilcox

Patrick Troughton

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