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Ill Met by Moonlight
Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

61% User Rating
1h 44min
War
Adventure
Action

"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.

Emeric PressburgerDirector

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Dirk Bogarde

Dirk Bogarde

Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"

David Oxley

David Oxley

Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss

Marius Goring

Marius Goring

Major General Kreipe

Dimitri Andreas

Dimitri Andreas

Niko Soldan Emeris

Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack

Captain Sandy Rendel

Laurence Payne

Laurence Payne

Manoli

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Wolfe Morris

George

Michael Gough

Michael Gough

Andoni Zoidakis

John Cairney

John Cairney

Elias

Brian Worth

Brian Worth

Roland Bartrop

Roland Bartrop

Miki

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George Eugeniou

Paul Stassino

Paul Stassino

Yani Katsias

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Peter Augustine

The Dentist

Christopher Rhodes

Christopher Rhodes

General Breuer

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

German officer at The Dentist's office

Richard Marner

Richard Marner

German Officer with Gen. Breuer

David McCallum

David McCallum

Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)

Peter Swanwick

Peter Swanwick

Spectacled Officer with General Breuer

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Adeeb Assaly

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Peter Brace

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Guido Lorraine

Howard Marion-Crawford

Howard Marion-Crawford

George Pravda

George Pravda

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Andreas Malandrinos

Greek (uncredited)

E. V. H. Emmett

E. V. H. Emmett

Narrator(voice) (uncredited)

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Gisela Birke

German Girl(uncredited)

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Phyllia Houseman

Michali's Sister

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John Houseman

Johnny Houseman

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Takis Frangofinos

Michali

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Theo Moreas

Village Priest

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CinemaSerf
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Rating 70%

January 29, 2025

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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