Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)

Directed by

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War II, British agents on Crete kidnap a German general. The film follows the planning and dangers of the mission.

tensesombergrittymethodicalresoluteearnestrestrainedatmospheric

What happens

Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the US 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 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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