Ill Met by Moonlight (film)

Ill Met by Moonlight 1957, also known as Night Ambush, is a film by the British writerdirectorproducer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and the last movie they made together through their production company, The Archers. The film, which stars Dirk Bogarde and features Marius Goring, David Oxley, and Cyril Cusack, is based on the 1950 book Ill Met by Moonlight The Abduction of General Kreipe by W. Stanley Moss, which is an account of events during the authors service on Crete during World War II as an agent of the Special Operations Executive SOE. The title is a quotation from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, and the book features the young agents capture and evacuation of the German general Heinrich Kreipe.

Ill Met By Moonlight was filmed at Pinewood Studios in England, with location shooting in the AlpesMaritimes in France and Italy, and on the Cte dAzur in France.The story was affectionately parodied by Spike Milligan in the 1957 Goon Show episode, Ill Met by Goonlight. ........

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