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  1. 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 and meet with other British agents and members of the Cretan resistance. In April 1944, they kidnap General Kreipe ( Marius Goring ), the German commander of the island's ...

  2. Night Ambush: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas. Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.

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    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • 1958-07
  3. With Crete controlled by German Gen. Heinrich Kreipe (Marius Goring), British Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Capt. W. Stanley Moss (David Oxley) launch a raid of the island.

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    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • War
    • Dirk Bogarde
    • Ill Met by Moonlight (film)1
    • Ill Met by Moonlight (film)2
    • Ill Met by Moonlight (film)3
    • Ill Met by Moonlight (film)4
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  4. Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe is a non-fiction partly-autobiographical book [1] [2] written by W. Stanley Moss, [3] a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe.

    • W. Stanley Moss
    • 1950
  5. Aug 7, 2011 · Taking its title from a play concerned with dreams and disguises, magic and power, Ill Met By Moonlight is all about questions of identity. Under the credits, we see Dirk Bogarde in uniform; then, unexpectedly, we see him in the flamboyant outfit of a Cretan hill-bandit.

  6. Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the USA 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".

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  8. May 11, 2016 · Ill Met by Moonlight is a classic and stands out from many British war films of the 1950s because of its realism. The British SOE men and the Cretan guerrillas look absolutely right for their parts. It is dramatic and full of suspense while filled with much humour.

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