The Moonraker
The Moonraker
Release: 1958-08-02
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 6.8
Action
Adventure
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Associated British Picture Corporation
Cast
George Baker
as Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker
Richard Leech
as Henry Strangeways
Patrick Troughton
as Captain Wilcox
Marius Goring
as Colonel John Beaumont
Paul Whitsun-Jones
as Parfitt
John Le Mesurier
as Cromwell
George Woodbridge
as Captain Lowry
Peter Arne
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Julian Somers
as Captain Foster
Patrick Waddington
as Lord Dorset
Sylvia Syms
as Anne Wyndham
Clive Morton
as Lord Harcourt
Gary Raymond
as Charles Stuart
Michael Anderson Jr.
as Martin Strangeways
Leslie Linder
as Trooper Bell