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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Stewart Granger
• George Sanders
• Joan Greenwood
• Viveca Lindfors
• Jon Whiteley
• Liliane Montevecchi
• Melville Cooper
• Sean McClory