Ill Met by Moonlight
6.5
“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.
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Cast
31 people
Dirk Bogarde
Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"
Known for
A Bridge Too Far
Death in Venice
David Oxley
Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss
Known for
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Bonjour Tristesse
Marius Goring
Major General Kreipe
Known for
The Red Shoes
A Matter of Life and Death
Dimitri Andreas
Niko Soldan Emeris
Known for
Top Secret!
Evil Under the Sun
Cyril Cusack
Captain Sandy Rendel
Known for
Jesus of Nazareth
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Laurence Payne
Manoli
Known for
The Trollenberg Terror
Vampire Circus
Wolfe Morris
George
Known for
The House That Dripped Blood
The Abominable Snowman
Michael Gough
Andoni Zoidakis
Known for
Batman Returns
Corpse Bride
John Cairney
Elias
Known for
Jason and the Argonauts
A Night to Remember
Brian Worth
Known for
Scrooge
An Inspector Calls
Roland Bartrop
Miki
Known for
The Two Marshals
Two Colonels
George Eugeniou
Also in
That Riviera Touch
Kill Me Tomorrow
Emeric Pressburger Director · Michael Powell Director Míkis Theodorakis Composer
Budget $215K · United States release April 24, 1958 · Produced in United Kingdom
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Budget
$215,000
Production
The Rank Organisation
Production
Vega Film
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Greek
Release dates
United Kingdom · January 31, 1957
Limited theatrical · London
United States · April 24, 1958
Theatrical
United Kingdom
March 4, 1957 · Theatrical
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