I'll Met by Moonlight (1957)

Directors

Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Marius Goring, David Oxley

The story

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 other British agents and members of the Cretan resistance. In April 1944, they kidnap General Kreipe, the German commander of the island's occupying forces and, in disguise, drive his car through a number of German checkpoints until they abandon it and set off on foot with the General.

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