"I hate these long drawn out affairs."
The English Civil War is over, and Cromwell's roundheads are trying to hunt down and capture Charles Stuart. Stuart's future depends on the dashing Earl of Dawlish (George Baker). For the Earl is in fact the secretive Moonraker, a man dedicated to spiriting Royalists across the channel to France. He travels to the Windwhistle Inn to prepare the escape. There he meets Anne Wyndham (Sylvia Syms), the fiancée of local Roundhead colonel.
A swashbuckling adventure, which does more limping than dashing, as I just don't believe Baker in the part, or his ability to sweep an avowed puritan off her feet with a few words about how nice his entitled lands are!
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