The Moonraker (1958)

6.9/10 82 min Action Adventure Drama War

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.

Cast

George Baker

Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker

Sylvia Syms

Anne Wyndham

Marius Goring

Colonel John Beaumont

Peter Arne

Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler

Clive Morton

Lord Harcourt

Gary Raymond

Charles Stuart

Richard Leech

Henry Strangeways

Michael Anderson Jr.

Martin Strangeways

Paul Whitsun-Jones

Parfitt

John Le Mesurier

Cromwell

Patrick Troughton

Captain Wilcox

Julian Somers

Captain Foster

Patrick Waddington

Lord Dorset

George Woodbridge

Captain Lowry

Leslie Linder

Trooper Bell

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