Granger went to Britain to make "Footsteps in the Fog" (1955), a movie with Simmons, for Columbia. Back at MGM, he was in "Moonfleet" (1955), cast as adventurer Jeremy Fox in the Dorset of 1757, a man who rules a gang of cut-throat smugglers with an iron fist until he is softened by a 10-year-old boy who worships him and who believes only the best of him. The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, a former associate of Orson Welles. It was a flop.