# Les Contrebandiers de Moonfleet (1955)

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**Original title**: *Moonfleet*
**Runtime**: 87 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Drama, History
**Directed by**: Fritz Lang
**Written by**: Jan Lustig, Margaret Fitts
**Starring**: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi

> *Wild and wonderful as the thrill-packed novel that inspired it !*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Young orphan meets smuggler-priest in a Dorset backwater where the sea hides more than rum.  
The boy swings between piety and piracy under a mentor who wears velvet and guilt like twin cloaks.  
18th-century England trembles in candlelight, held together by secrets and silver coins.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, tender

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