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The Moonraker (1958)
Directed by David MacDonald
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.
Length 82 minutes
Actors
George Baker | Sylvia Syms | Marius Goring | Peter Arne | Clive Morton | Gary Raymond | Richard Leech | Iris Russell | Michael Anderson Jr. | Paul Whitsun-Jones | John Le Mesurier | Patrick Troughton | Julian Somers | Sylvia Bidmead | Patrick Waddington | Fanny Rowe | George Woodbridge | Leslie Linder