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  1. Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the USA as Night Ambush (which is eleven minutes shorter than the British release), 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 ...

    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
  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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    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • Unrated
    • Action, Adventure, Drama
  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. The ...

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    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • War
    • Dirk Bogarde
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  4. A War of Shadows. 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. Moss kept a diary during the war years ...

    • W. Stanley Moss
    • 190
    • 1950
    • 1950
  5. Ill Met by Moonlight is a well made little war movie about British agents capturing a German general in Crete during World War Two. Like many Powell & Pressburger films, it has a classical feeling. Like many Powell & Pressburger films, it has a classical feeling.

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    • The Rank Organisation, Vega Film
    • Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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  7. 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". 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 ...

  8. It's based on an actual incident in World War II: British officer Bogarde is working with partisans in occupied Crete, and decides to kidnap the German commander-in-chief to boost the war effort ...

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