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  1. Plot. During World War II, the Greek island of Crete is occupied by the Nazis. British officers Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO and Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) land on the island and meet with other British agents and members of the Cretan resistance.

  2. Original title: Ill Met by Moonlight. 1957. Unrated. 1h 33m. IMDb RATING. 6.5 /10. 2K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Action Adventure Drama. Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers. Directors. Michael Powell. Emeric Pressburger. Writers. W. Stanley Moss

    • (2K)
    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • 1958-07
  3. With Crete controlled by German Gen. Heinrich Kreipe (Marius Goring), British Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Capt. W. Stanley Moss (David Oxley) launch a raid of the island.

    • (303)
    • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    • War
    • Dirk Bogarde
  4. Michael Powell. Writer. Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

  5. Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the USA as Night Ambush, 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".

  6. Michael Powell. 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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  8. Show full synopsis. In 1950, Emeric Pressburger read an extract from 'Ill Met By Moonlight', Stanley Moss 's account of his adventures on occupied Crete during the Second World War, and immediately optioned its film rights.