UNITED KINGDOM · 1957

Ill Met by Moonlight

Michael Powell
World War II guerrilla warfare kidnapping plot military occupation resistance movement
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Synopsis

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

Year1957
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorMichael Powell
Ill Met by Moonlight poster

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