Characters & Themes
The Moonstone (1996) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1996 · 128 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Robert Bierman
- Starring
- Nicholas Lane, Andy Devine, Lesley Sharp, Anton Lesser, Keeley Hawes, Peter Vaughan
Greg Wise and Keeley Hawes headline this adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s detective novel. The Hindu diamond, the Moonstone, is stolen from a shrine by John Herncastle in 1799 and is said to be cursed. In 1848 Franklin Blake gives the stone to Rachel as a gift, but it vanishes the next morning. Rachel accuses Blake, who then seeks the real thief.
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