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The Moon-Spinners ()

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A teenager encounters romance, intrigue and a search for stolen jewels during her visit to the island of Crete.
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Nikky Ferris
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Stratos
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Mark Camford
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Aunt Frances Ferris
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Sophia
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Anthony Gamble
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Lambis
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Cynthia Gamble
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Alexis
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Yacht Captain (as Andre Morell)
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Police Lieutenant
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Orestes
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Hearse Driver
Harry Tardios ...
Bus Driver
Pamela Barrie ...
Ariadne
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Madame Habib
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Terry Gilkyson ...
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James Neilson

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Michael Dyne ... (screenplay)
 
Mary Stewart ... (book "The Moon-Spinners")

Produced by

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Bill Anderson ... co-producer
Hugh Attwooll ... associate producer
Walt Disney ... producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Ron Grainer

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Paul Beeson ... director of photography

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Gordon Stone

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Maude Spector

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Anthony Masters ... (as Tony Masters)

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Anthony Mendleson

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Harry Frampton ... makeup artist
A.G. Scott ... hairdresser

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Peter Manley ... production manager

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John Peverall ... assistant director
Arthur J. Vitarelli ... second unit director
Costas Ferris ... second assistant director (uncredited)
Spyros Spyromilios ... assistant director (uncredited)
Dusty Symonds ... third assistant director (uncredited)

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John Graysmark ... assistant art director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Jonathan Bates ... sound editor
Gordon K. McCallum ... sound recordist (as Gordon McCallum)
Dudley Messenger ... sound recordist
Mike DeBonis ... audio description narrator (uncredited)
Graham V. Hartstone ... sound camera operator (uncredited)
Otto Snel ... sound recordist (uncredited)

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Jimmy Harris ... special effects (uncredited)
Garth Inns ... special effects (uncredited)
Jimmy Ward ... special effects (uncredited)
Jack Woodbridge ... special effects (uncredited)

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Cliff Diggins ... stunt (uncredited)

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David Harcourt ... camera operator
Michael Reed ... additional photography
John Wilcox ... additional photography

Music Department

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Ron Grainer ... conductor
Ethmer Roten ... musician: flute (uncredited)

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Yvonne Axworthy ... continuity

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Jimmy Chipperfield ... animals
Walt Disney ... presenter
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Plot Summary

British musicologist Frances Ferris (Joan Greenwood) and her late teen niece Nikky Ferris (Hayley Mills) are travelling through Crete recording Greek folk songs for the BBC. In the usually quiet coastal town of Aghios Georgios, they manage to get a room at an inn called "The Moon-Spinners", despite the people at the inn being busy preparing for a wedding, and no one there, except Alexis (Michael Davis), the young teen son of the proprietress Sophia (Irene Papas), he who is fond of spouting current popular Americanisms in his slightly broken English, seeming to want them there. Frances and Nikky learn from Alexis that the unwelcoming feeling is all because of his maternal Uncle Stratos (Eli Wallach), who has become a man suspicious of anyone ever since his recent return from London after being away for fifteen years. Beyond those there for the wedding, the only other guest at the inn is a young Englishman named Mark Camford (Peter McEnery), who they befriend. Nikky is too preoccupied with her own suspicions and mistrust of Stratos truly to see that there is something more sinister in the feelings between Stratos and Mark. Although they don't say anything to each other directly on the matter, Stratos knows why Mark is in Aghios Georgios and is always skin diving in the nearby Bay of Dolphins, and Mark knows that Stratos, and by association his other nephew Lambis (Paul Stassino), will be after him if he gets too close to what they have hidden in the bay before their intended method of disposal. By getting close to Mark, Nikky may unwittingly get caught up in what is the very dangerous and potentially life threatening game of cat-and-mouse between Stratos and Mark. Written by Huggo

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Taglines HAYLEY and a ROMANTIC STRANGER bound together by an ancient secret... too dangerous to share! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Moon Spinners (World-wide, English title)
  • La baie aux émeraudes (France)
  • La bahía de las esmeraldas (Spain)
  • Natten uden måne (Denmark)
  • Der Millionenschatz (West Germany)
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Runtime
  • 118 min
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Budget $5,000,000 (estimated)

Did You Know?

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Trivia Pola Negri (Madame Habib) had been retired for about twenty years when Producer Walt Disney convinced her to come out of retirement to make this movie. Studio Executive and co-Producer Bill Anderson telephoned Negri at home in Texas, and convinced the veteran actress to read the screenplay, after going to Hollywood to negotiate the project. See more »
Goofs When Nikky is trapped in the windmill it is late afternoon, yet when they cut away to the aunt at the Inn, it is dark out as if it were night. Then, when Stratos goes to the windmill after that, it is late afternoon again. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Moon-Spinners: Part 1 (1966). See more »
Soundtracks The Moon-Spinners Song See more »
Quotes Stratos: They cannot have lied. The stars cannot lie...
Madame Habib: Everybody lies when it serves their purpose, even the stars
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