Moonfleet (film)

Moonfleet
Directed byFritz Lang
Written byJan Lustig [de]
Margaret Fitts
Based onMoonfleet
1898 novel
by J. Meade Falkner
Produced byJohn Houseman
StarringStewart Granger
George Sanders
Joan Greenwood
Viveca Lindfors
CinematographyRobert H. Planck
Edited byAlbert Akst
Music byMiklós Rózsa
Vicente Gómez (flamenco music)
Distributed byMGM
Release dates
  • June 24, 1955 (1955-06-24) (U.S.)

1960 (France)
Running time
87 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,955,000[1]
Box office$1,574,000[1]

Moonfleet is a 1955 Eastman Color swashbuckler film shot in CinemaScope directed by Fritz Lang. It was inspired by the 1898 novel Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner,[2] although significant alterations were made in the characters and plot.

  1. ^ a b 'The Eddie Mannix Ledger’, Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
  2. ^ Moonfleet at IMDB