Movie Cosmos - Ill Met by Moonlight

Description:

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Top Cast >

Dirk Bogarde

As Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"

David Oxley

As Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss

Marius Goring

As Major General Kreipe

Dimitri Andreas

As Niko Soldan Emeris

Cyril Cusack

As Captain Sandy Rendel

Laurence Payne

As Manoli

Wolfe Morris

As George

Michael Gough

As Andoni Zoidakis

John Cairney

As Elias

Brian Worth

Roland Bartrop

As Miki

George Eugeniou

Paul Stassino

As Yani Katsias

Peter Augustine

As The Dentist

Christopher Rhodes

As General Breuer

Christopher Lee

As German officer at The Dentist's office

Richard Marner

As German Officer with Gen. Breuer

David McCallum

As Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)

Peter Swanwick

As Spectacled Officer with General Breuer

Adeeb Assaly

Peter Brace

Guido Lorraine

Howard Marion-Crawford

George Pravda

Andreas Malandrinos

As Greek (uncredited)

E. V. H. Emmett

As Narrator(voice) (uncredited)

Gisela Birke

As German Girl(uncredited)

Phyllia Houseman

As Michali's Sister

John Houseman

As Johnny Houseman

Takis Frangofinos

As Michali

Theo Moreas

As Village Priest

Top Crew >

Michael Powell

Director, Writer, Producer

Emeric Pressburger

Director, Writer, Producer

W. Stanley Moss

Adaptation

Earl St. John

Executive Producer

Míkis Theodorakis

Original Music Composer

Christopher Challis

Director of Photography

Arthur Stevens

Editor

Alex Vetchinsky

Art Direction

Sydney Streeter

Associate Producer

Arthur Alcott

Production Controller

Jack Swinburne

Production Manager

Charles Orme

Assistant Director

Austin Dempster

Camera Operator

Bill Warrington

Special Effects

Nandi Routh

Costume Designer

Archie Ludski

Sound Editor

Gordon K. McCallum

Sound Recordist

Charles Knott

Sound Recordist

Gladys Goldsmith

Continuity

Paul Rabiger

Makeup Artist

Frederic Lewis

Music Director

Jean Osborne

Unit Publicist

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (7/10)

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 getting him off the island is going to be something completely different though as it turns out he's quite a shrewd customer. With the soldiers combing the island to find them, we have quite a few daring escapades as this game of cat and mouse pans out. There's plenty of charisma and mischief on offer here and the plot even leaves a little wriggle room for some integrity too. It's roots are in fact and the production is all pretty standard but it's quite niftily stitched together and I enjoyed it.

2025-01-29