Moonfleet 1955 Film full HD movie download free with screenpaly story, dialogue LYRICS and STAR Cast

A gothic melodrama set in England during the eighteenth century, the film is about John Mohune, a young orphan, played by Jon Whiteley, who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with his mother's former lover, Jeremy Fox. Fox, played by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman intimately involved with smugglers. On the run from the law, Mohune and Fox must decipher a coded message in their pursuit of a fabulous diamond hidden long ago.

• Stewart Granger as Jeremy Fox
• George Sanders as Lord James Ashwood
• Joan Greenwood as Lady Clarista Ashwood
• Viveca Lindfors as Mrs. Minton
• Jon Whiteley as John Mohune
• Liliane Montevecchi as Gypsy
• Melville Cooper as Felix Ratsey
• Sean McClory as Elzevir Block
• Alan Napier as Parson Glennie
• John Hoyt as Magistrate Maskew
• Donna Corcoran as Grace
• Jack Elam as Damen

MGM bought the film rights to the novel in 1951 and announced Stewart Granger as the star immediately.

Jan Lustig  wrote the first script and John Houseman produced.

Houseman later recalled, "the novel was written back about 1890, was as successful as Treasure Island had been, and then was totally forgotten. The man never wrote anything else. It was a grim story, a realistic adventure story about pirates and a little boy who accidentally got himself involved with them. There was no sex. But then we began to have fun with it, and embroider it; got Joan Greenwood over, and a little English boy , and had a ball making it."

Director Fritz Lang said the story "calls for mood, for atmosphere. The smugglers work in the dark, on hazy days. I plan to light my principals just as you would in a play, dropping shadows on the sides of the stage to concentrate on the main action and the players involved in it."

The movie was shot almost entirely on the MGM backlot, augmented by a few shots of the California coast. During filming, James Dean visited the set; Stewart Granger said his manner was rude and dismissive.

Houseman said, "I got along fine with Fritz Lang, even though we screamed and yelled at each other. But he was very anxious to make a picture at Metro, and he rather wanted to make a picture with me. On the whole, we managed to turn out something very much off the beaten track-and, as I said, we had a good time."

Granger later said "I hated working with Fritz Lang - he was a Kraut and it was a bloody awful film. I wanted to produce and act it in Cornwall and made them buy the book. MGM turned it into a big colour film. Moonfleet was not Lang's type of film - it is a romantic child's film. It wasn't a bad part."

Houseman says one time during filming his associate producer, Jud Kinberg, "came down to the stage and heard this awful caterwauling. As he got near he heard: "You are not a professional! We pay you a lot of money to be a professional actor, and it seems to me you are stupid, you are lazy, you are nothing at all...!" Jud came around the corner, and saw that the recipient of this was a little boy of eleven!"

Houseman later said, "It ended up being rather a crazy type of picture-still much admired by European filmmakers-but, commercially, it was a disaster."

The film was a critical and financial failure on release. According to MGM records the movie earned $567,000 in the US and Canada and $1,007,000 overseas. It made a loss of $1,203,000.

The film was released in France in 1960 and had 917,219 admissions.

The prestigious French film publication Cahiers du Cinéma named Moonfleet as one of the 100 most essential films ever made, listing it at #32.

• List of American films of 1955