The Moonraker

APPROPIATE

1958 / 82min.

Rating6.7

Genres

Action

Adventure

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

John Le Mesurier

Sylvia Syms

Peter Arne

Michael Anderson Jr.

George Baker

Patrick Troughton

George Woodbridge

Marius Goring

Gary Raymond

Fanny Rowe

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