Poster for Ill Met by Moonlight. 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 novel by W. Stanley Moss. Poster for Ill Met by Moonlight This work is copyrighted. ...
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Powell and Pressburger were a British-based film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. ...
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During WWII 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 and kidnapped the Nazi Maj. Gen. Karl Kreipe (Marius Goring). German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...
Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ...
The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, known as Paddy, (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is famous in the genre of travel literature. ...
Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde (March 28, 1921 - May 8, 1999), better known by the stage name Dirk Bogarde, was an actor. ...
Partisan may refer to: A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. ...
Marius Goring (May 23, 1912 - September 30, 1998) was a British stage and cinema actor. ...
That was the relatively easy bit. They then had to get him to a secluded cove on the far side of the island where they could be picked up and taken back to Cairo. View of the modern citys skyline. ...
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