| Director | Terence Young |
|---|---|
| Budget | $2.4 million |
| Box office | $2 million |
In 18th-century England, orphan girl Moll Flanders becomes a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll has a romantic relationship with the eldest son, but after he abandons her, she marries the younger son, a drunken fool who dies, making her a young widow.
Moll is employed by Lady Blystone as a servant. She meets a bandit pretending to be a sea captain called Jemmy who mistakes her for the lady of the house and woos her. Moll rebuffs the advances of Mrs. Blystone's husband but is sacked from her job when they are spotted together.
A banker marries Moll, but on their wedding night, she flees from him when Jemmy's gang of thieves appear. She pursues Jemmy to a town where she begins her own life of thievery. She is jailed and finds Jemmy there as well. Her husband dies of a sudden heart attack, leaving her as the sole inheritor of his fortune. She buys her freedom and that of Jemmy, whom she marries aboard ship on their way to the United States.