Moonfleet (1955)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 87m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century a boy is sent by his dying mother to live under the protection of a former lover, who now leads a band of smugglers in the Fleet lagoon of Dorset.
Review:
Above-average buccaneering romp: short, entertaining, well-cast, but ill-served by Cinemascope and Rozsa's 'one more time Miklos, baby!' doom-laden and repetitive score. French critics saw it as a 'film crépusculaire hanté par l'idée de la mort', and, true enough, the denouement is fairly corpse-strewn.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 87m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century a boy is sent by his dying mother to live under the protection of a former lover, who now leads a band of smugglers in the Fleet lagoon of Dorset.
Review:
Above-average buccaneering romp: short, entertaining, well-cast, but ill-served by Cinemascope and Rozsa's 'one more time Miklos, baby!' doom-laden and repetitive score. French critics saw it as a 'film crépusculaire hanté par l'idée de la mort', and, true enough, the denouement is fairly corpse-strewn.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 87m
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth century a boy is sent by his dying mother to live under the protection of a former lover, who now leads a band of smugglers in the Fleet lagoon of Dorset.
Review:
Above-average buccaneering romp: short, entertaining, well-cast, but ill-served by Cinemascope and Rozsa's 'one more time Miklos, baby!' doom-laden and repetitive score. French critics saw it as a 'film crépusculaire hanté par l'idée de la mort', and, true enough, the denouement is fairly corpse-strewn.