Ill Met by Moonlight (film)

Ill Met by Moonlight (film)
Ill Met by Moonlight
(Night Ambush)

theatrical poster
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
Editing by Arthur Stevens
Studio Pinewood Studios
Distributed by Rank Film Distributors Ltd.
Release date(s) 4 March 1957 (UK)
24 April 1958 (NYC)
July 1958 (US)
Running time 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, the last film they made together through their Archers production company. 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. It was an account of events during the author's service on Crete as an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. It features the young agents' capture and evacuation of the German commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Plot

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 German General Heinrich 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, where British forces are stationed.[1]

Cast

Cast notes:

  • Christopher Lee and David McCallum have small parts: Lee as a German officer in the dentist scene, and McCallum, in his film debut, as a sailor on the ship that picks up the group. Lee's part was edited out of the 1959 American re-release of the film.[3] A "John Houseman" in the cast does not appear to be the well-known actor and director John Houseman.[4]

Production

Ill Met By Moonlight was filmed at Pinewood Studios in England, with location shooting in the Alpes-Maritimes in France and Italy, and on the Côte d'Azur in France.[5][6]

Other media

The story was affectionately parodied by Spike Milligan in the 1957 Goon Show episode, "Ill Met by Goonlight".

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