The Moonraker

The Moonraker

82 mins | Action, Adventure | Aug. 2, 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.

The Moonraker

82 mins | Action, Adventure | Aug. 2, 1958

The Moonraker
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Associated British Picture Corporation
Original title The Moonraker
Directors David MacDonald
Writers Arthur Watkin, Wilfred Eades, Alistair Bell, Robert Hall

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

Julian Somers

as Captain Foster