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Now here is one more movie that the French adore and everyone else seems to have forgotten. In this case the French are right! This is a lovely film, although "lovely" isn't quite the word. It's an ideal children's movie, I think, if you think scaring children to bits is in good taste.

I was just wondering if anyone else has seen it.

Also tell me about the book.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Think I remember hearing about the book somewhere, but I could be thinking of another. Searched Amazon.com. Think I found it:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/014062144X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://erb.hp.infoseek.co.jp/moon2tandem.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Incidentally this film is in circulation in Cinemascope in the U.S. for the first time in decades so encourage your local repertory theaters to program it. Here in France, it first appeared on DVD thanks to the educational ministry (!) and now again, thanks to Warner Bros. Here it's called "Les contrabandiers de Moonfleet."

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Scaring the bejesus of children is "educational"? What does the film teach them?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 30 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

the ministry in question has a program called "les enfants du cinema" which is just a kind of cinema history curriculum for elementary schools, and includes many different films which have child protagonists or a certain child-like quality, from kiarostami's "where is my friend's house?" to "mr. hulot's holiday."

it's pretty great actually. i went to the "lire fete" the other day and the ministry was selling posters for 1 euro and postcards for half that.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the "lire fete" btw was an expo for cinema organizations and companies where they would sell books, magazines, dvds, etc. in the marais...just for last saturday and sunday. i was careful not to spend too much money but i'm still kicking myself for not having bought more issues of "1895."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the book is fairly routinely present in school libraries in the UK - it wz published as a puffin in the 60s or 70s

the only bit i can recall: when the boy hides in the crypt he puts his hand in blackbeard's coffin and blackbeard's beard comes off in his hand

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd like to read the book, i'll pick it up soon.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

in the movie stewart granger is wearing wonderfully garish makeup, ladies take note.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 1 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember a BBC series of this in the 80s...I enjoyed it immensely.

― Dave B (daveb), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

really? does the bbc set out to make a miniseries about of every piece of literature ever?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I had to read it at school. I remember very little of it. No help here.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

SMUGGLARRRRRZ REPRESENT!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

Hey, sorry to dig up and old thread, but it popped up on random :)

I recently had to teach Moonfleet to some 11 year olds whilst doing teacher training. They loved it. I'd never read it before, but it's a very nice story. I didn't know there was a film.

― Ricky, Saturday, 22 May 2004 07:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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