Ill Met by Moonlight
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.
1957-01-31
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Cast
Director
Michael Powell
Director
Emeric Pressburger
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
Michael Gough as Andoni Zoidakis
John Cairney as Elias
Brian Worth
Roland Bartrop as Miki
Paul Stassino as Yani Katsias
Christopher Rhodes as General Breuer
Christopher Lee as German officer at The Dentist's office
Richard Marner as German Officer with Gen. Breuer
David McCallum as Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)
Peter Swanwick as Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Guido Lorraine
Howard Marion-Crawford
George Pravda
Andreas Malandrinos as Greek (uncredited)