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- BFI identifier33246
- Date1957 (Copyright)
1957-03-04 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisTrue story of the kidnapping of a German general in Crete. Inspired by the exploits of Patrick Leigh-Fermor as he fought alongside the Greek Resistance in World War II. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe following quotation appears after the opening credits: 'In the midst of the dark sea is a land called Crete, fair and fertile, surrounded by the waves. The Odyssey of Homer. Book XIX'
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- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Michael Powell
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger
©/Production Company: The Rank Organisation Film Productions Ltd
view all - CastE.V.H. Emmett ([Narrator])
Dirk Bogarde (Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, 'Philedem')
Marius Goring (Major General Karl Kreipe)
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Title
Ill Met by Moonlight (Original)
Night Ambush (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/9B19-6D9F-31C4-FD7A-BCD1-GCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm BW Negative - Safety - Mixed - Master
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
Digital Betacam - Video - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Shooting script (Dirk Bogarde' copy) - SCR-9950
Script - Script type: Post production script - SCR-9951
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-33246
Ephemera: publicity - PBL-33246
Ill Met By Moonlight - World War II drama. True story of the kidnapping of a German general in Crete, inspired by the exploits of Patrick Leigh-Fermor as he fought alongside the Greek Resistance during the war. Produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; script Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, based on an adaptation of Patrick Leigh Fermor's war time diaries by W. Stanley Moss; director of photography: Christopher Challis; art direction: Alex Vetchinsky: editing: Arthur Stevens Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Cyril Cusack| Monthly Film Bulletin commented '...attention is too easily distracted - pleasantly by the attractive locations, but rather too obviously by the patriotic music score of Mikis Theodorakis...Dirk Bogarde's polite and restrained heroic style is here somewhat over-indulged' Papers include scripts, contracts, budgets, publicity and correspondence - MLP-1-1-68
Large press-sheet and Small pressbooks held. For another example of publicity, see PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUT ION COMPANY MATERIAL list, under Rank Organisation.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - PD-16197
Design: production - PD-16198
Design: production - PD-16199
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-3740
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-3741
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-22s
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-22r
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00m-p33
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-p32
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-c8f
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Work - 33246 - 1957 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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