What is Moonfleet / King Solomon's Mines about?

Name: Moonfleet / King Solomon's Mines
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

MOONFLEET, 1955, Warner Bros., 87 min. Dandy buccaneer Stewart Granger, a leader of murderous Dorset smugglers, is saddled with an orphan (Jon Whiteley) whose mother was his long lost love. Director Fritz Lang’s masterwork supplies moody Gothic graveyards, underground caverns, debauched nobility (George Sanders, Joan Greenwood), swordfights and tavern brawls. By the climax, Lang elevates Granger’s doomed hero to mythic status. KING SOLOMON’S MINES, 1950, Warner Bros., 103 min. Nominated for Best Picture, directors Compton Bennet and Andrew Marton’s eye-popping H. Rider Haggard adaptation won two Oscars, including Best Cinematography (Robert Surtees). Adventurer Stewart Granger is hired by Deborah Kerr to help find her husband, lost in the African wilds. As their expedition braves all kinds of perils, the squabbling leads find themselves falling in love. The majority of the film was shot in Africa.

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What is Moonfleet / King Solomon's Mines about?: MOONFLEET, 1955, Warner Bros., 87 min. Dandy buccaneer Stewart Granger, a leader of murderous Dorset smugglers, is saddled with an orphan (Jon Whiteley) whose mother was his long lost love. Director Fritz Lang’s masterwork supplies moody Gothic graveyards, underground caverns, debauched nobility (George Sanders, Joan Greenwood), swordfights and tavern brawls. By the climax, Lang elevates Granger’s doomed hero to mythic status.

KING SOLOMON’S MINES, 1950, Warner Bros., 103 min. Nominated for Best Picture, directors Compton Bennet and Andrew Marton’s eye-popping H. Rider Haggard adaptation won two Oscars, including Best Cinematography (Robert Surtees). Adventurer Stewart Granger is hired by Deborah Kerr to help find her husband, lost in the African wilds. As their expedition braves all kinds of perils, the squabbling leads find themselves falling in love. The majority of the film was shot in Africa.