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Ill Met by Moonlight
They stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops.
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
- Original title
- Ill Met by Moonlight
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
- Budget
- $215,000
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Jan 29, 2025 · via TMDB
Dirk Bogarde was good in these light-hearted but entertaining wartime dramas, and together here with Marius Goring manages to keep this moving along well. He's a British officer on Crete who comes up with a plan to kidnap the Nazi's commanding general "Kreipe" (Goring) together with the local resistance. Quite quickly, they discover that the general isn't that well protected. Getting him is one thing, keeping him and getting him off the island is going to be something completely different though as it turns out he's quite a shrewd customer. With the soldiers combing the island to find them, we have quite a few daring escapades as this game of cat and mouse pans out. There's plenty of charisma and mischief on offer here and the plot even leaves a little wriggle room for some integrity too. It's roots are in fact and the production is all pretty standard but it's quite niftily stitched together and I enjoyed it.
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Dirk Bogarde
Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"
David Oxley
Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss
Marius Goring
Major General Kreipe
Dimitri Andreas
Niko Soldan Emeris
Cyril Cusack
Captain Sandy Rendel
Laurence Payne
Manoli
Michael Gough
Andoni Zoidakis
John Cairney
Elias
Brian Worth
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Roland Bartrop
Miki
Paul Stassino
Yani Katsias
Christopher Rhodes
General Breuer
Christopher Lee
German officer at The Dentist's office
Richard Marner
German Officer with Gen. Breuer
David McCallum
Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)
Peter Swanwick
Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Guido Lorraine
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Howard Marion-Crawford
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George Pravda
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Andreas Malandrinos
Greek (uncredited)
Emeric Pressburger
Director
Michael Powell
Director
Earl St. John
Executive Producer
Emeric Pressburger
Producer
Michael Powell
Producer
Míkis Theodorakis
Original Music Composer
Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell
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