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September 1954
- In October 1953 the film was officially put on MGM's schedule. Shooting Filming took place in September 1954.
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The book was published in England in 1898 but not published in the US until 1951. [4] Reviews were excellent. [5] MGM bought the film rights and announced Stewart Granger as the star immediately. William Wright was originally going to produce.
Somewhere in 18th-century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet to put himself under the protection of a certain Mr. Jeremy Fox. The boy discovers that Fox is both a former lover of his mother and the leader of a gang of buccaneers.
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Sep 8, 2019 · The checkered career of director Fritz Lang is amply illustrated by "Moonfleet", the 1955 MGM adaptation of the novel by J. Meade Falkner. Lang was arguably Europe's most esteemed filmmaker but the rise of National Socialism saw him immigrate to America before the worst aspects of Hitler's government were put into place.
Aug 27, 2008 · On its release in June 1955, Moonfleet garnered respectable but largely disinterested reviews, with many critics seeing it as a pictorially striking but minor work within Lang’s declining oeuvre.
- Adrian Danks
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Based on J. Meade Falkner's classic tale of smugglers and hidden treasure set in the 18th century on the seacoast village of Moonfleet in Dorset, Moonfleet finds Fritz Lang directing a CinemaScope adventure drama. It observes Scottish child actor Jon Whiteley as a young boy named John Mohune who becomes sent by his dying mother to remain under ...
Production. The book was published in England in 1898 but not published in the US until 1951. Reviews were excellent. MGM bought the film rights and announced Stewart Granger as the star immediately. William Wright was originally going to produce. Then the job of producing went to John Houseman.
