A dandified 18th-century Dorset gent who leads a double life as a smuggler is entrusted with looking after a boy whose mother has just died - but the orphan uncovers his secret and the pair become embroiled in an adventure involving a diamond and an evil aristocrat. Fritz Lang's period drama based on J Meade Falkner's novel, starring Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, Joan Greenwood and George Sanders.

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.