

Ill Met by Moonlight
They stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops.
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $215K
- Box office
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- Language
- German
- general
- kidnapping
- crete
- partisan
- morse code
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United Kingdom
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR24 Apr 1958
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)London31 Jan 1957
- Theatrical4 Mar 1957
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Ill Met by Moonlight was released on 31 January 1957.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/29/2025
Dirk Bogarde was good in these light-hearted but entertaining wartime dramas, and together here with Marius Goring manages to keep this moving along well. He's a British officer on Crete who comes up with a plan to kidnap the Nazi's commanding general "Kreipe" (Goring) together with the local resistance. Quite quickly, they discover that the general isn't that well protected. Getting him is one thing, keeping him and…
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