The Moonraker
1958After 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.
Acted in
George Baker
as Anthony, Earl of Dawlish/The Moonraker
Sylvia Syms
as Anne Wyndham
Marius Goring
as Colonel John Beaumont
Peter Arne
as Major Gregg/Edmund Tyler
Clive Morton
as Lord Harcourt
Gary Raymond
as Charles Stuart
Richard Leech
as Henry Strangeways
Iris Russell
as Judith Strangeways
Michael Anderson Jr.
as Martin Strangeways
Paul Whitsun-Jones
as Parfitt
John Le Mesurier
as Cromwell
Patrick Troughton
as Captain Wilcox
Julian Somers
as Captain Foster
Sylvia Bidmead
as Meg
Patrick Waddington
as Lord Dorset
Fanny Rowe
as Lady Dorset
George Woodbridge
as Captain Lowry
Leslie Linder
as Trooper Bell