Ill Met by Moonlight (film)
| Ill Met by Moonlight (Night Ambush) |
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| Directed by |
Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by |
W. Stanley Moss (book) Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring |
Dirk Bogarde Marius Goring David Oxley Cyril Cusack |
| Music by | Mikis Theodorakis |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Arthur Stevens |
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| Distributed by | The Rank Organisation |
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Release date
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4 March 1957 (UK) 24 April 1958 (NYC) July 1958 (US) |
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Running time
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104 minutes 93 minutes (US) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), also known as Night Ambush, is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and the last movie they made together through their production company, "The Archers". The film, which stars Dirk Bogarde and features Marius Goring, David Oxley, and Cyril Cusack, is based on the 1950 book Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe by W. Stanley Moss, which is an account of events during the author's service on Crete during World War II as an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the book features the young agents' capture and evacuation of the German general Heinrich Kreipe.
During World War II, the Greek Mediterranean island of Crete was occupied by the Nazis. British officers Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO (Dirk Bogarde) and Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC (David Oxley) of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) land on the island. With the help of the local Cretan resistance in April 1944, they kidnap General Kreipe (Marius Goring), the commander of the island. They take Kreipe across rough country to a secluded cove on the far side of the island, where they are picked up and taken to Cairo, the Middle East headquarters of British forces.
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