Ill Met by Moonlight

4/24/19581h 44m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ They stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops. ~

Overview:

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Director:

Michael Powell

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$215,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

general
kidnapping
crete
partisan
morse code

Cast

Dirk Bogarde

~ as ~

Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"

David Oxley

~ as ~

Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss

Marius Goring

~ as ~

Major General Kreipe

Dimitri Andreas

~ as ~

Niko Soldan Emeris

Cyril Cusack

~ as ~

Captain Sandy Rendel

Laurence Payne

~ as ~

Manoli

Wolfe Morris

~ as ~

George

Michael Gough

~ as ~

Andoni Zoidakis

John Cairney

~ as ~

Elias

Brian Worth

~ as ~

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 10 month(s) ago
7
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.