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Ill Met by Moonlight
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| Ill Met by Moonlight | |
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 Poster for Ill Met by Moonlight |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Marius Goring David Oxley Cyril Cusack |
| Music by | Mikis Theodorakis |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Editing by | Arthur Stevens |
| Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | March 4, 1957 UK |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Powell & Pressburger under the banner of The Archers, based on the book by W. Stanley Moss.
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Based on a real event.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
During World War II the Mediterranean island of Crete was occupied by the Nazis. A group of British Officers led by Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) landed on the island and, with the help of local partisans, kidnapped the Nazi Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe (Marius Goring).
They took Kreipe across very rough country to a secluded cove on the far side of the island, where they were picked up and taken to Cairo.
Spoilers end here.
The story was affectionately parodied by Spike Milligan in the 1957 Goon Show episode, Ill Met by Goonlight.
- W. Stanley Moss (1950). Ill Met by Moonlight. London: Harrap.
- Ian Christie (1994). Arrows of Desire: the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. London: Faber & Faber, 163pp (illus. filmog. bibliog. index). ISBN 0-571-16271-1.
- Ill Met by Moonlight at the Internet Movie Database
- Reviews and articles at the Powell & Pressburger Pages
- Ill Met by Moonlight at the BFI's Screenonline. Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
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Powell and Pressburger The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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| 1930s | The Spy in Black | The Lion Has Wings |
| 1940s | Contraband | An Airman's Letter to His Mother | Forty-Ninth Parallel | One of Our Aircraft is Missing | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | The Volunteer | A Canterbury Tale | I Know Where I'm Going! | A Matter of Life and Death | Black Narcissus | The Red Shoes | The Small Back Room |
| 1950s | The Elusive Pimpernel | Gone to Earth | The Tales of Hoffmann | Oh... Rosalinda!! | The Battle of the River Plate | Ill Met by Moonlight |
| 1960s | Peeping Tom (not Pressburger) | They're a Weird Mob | Age of Consent |
| 1970s | The Boy Who Turned Yellow |
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