Ill Met by Moonlight

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

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 resist...

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