Night Ambush (1957)
Ill Met by Moonlight
They stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops.
93 min
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
- Release date
- January 31, 1957
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Budget
- $215,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Major Patrick Leigh Fermor D.S.O. O.B.E. also known to the Cretans and the German Secret Police as PHILEDEM
- David Oxley as Captain W. Stanley Moss, M.C.
- Marius Goring as Major General Kreipe
- Dimitri Andreas as Niko
- Cyril Cusack as Sandy
- Laurence Payne as Manoli
- Wolfe Morris as George
- Michael Gough as Andoni Zoidakis
- John Cairney as Elias
- Brian Worth as Stratis Saviolkis
- Roland Bartrop as Miki
- George Eugeniou
- Paul Stassino as Yani Katsias
- 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
- Peter Brace
- Guido Lorraine
- Howard Marion-Crawford
- George Pravda
- Andreas Malandrinos as Greek (uncredited)
- E.V.H. Emmett as Narrator(voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Michael Powell · Director
- Emeric Pressburger · Director
- W. Stanley Moss · Writer
- Michael Powell · Writer
- Emeric Pressburger · Writer
- Michael Powell · Producer
- Emeric Pressburger · Producer
- Mikis Theodorakis · Composer
- Christopher Challis · Cinematographer
- Arthur Stevens · Editor