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Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe is a non-fiction partly-autobiographical book [1] [2] written by W. Stanley Moss, [3] a British soldier, writer and traveller. It describes an operation in Crete during the Second World War to capture German general Heinrich Kreipe. Moss kept a diary during the war years and based his book ...
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the US as Night Ambush (which is eleven minutes shorter than the British release), is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and the last movie they made together through their production company "The Archers".
The episode was immortalised in his best-selling book Ill Met by Moonlight (1950). [22] It was adapted into a film of the same name, directed and produced by Michael Powell and released in 1957. It featured Dirk Bogarde as Patrick Leigh Fermor and David Oxley as Moss. The abduction is commemorated near Archanes and at Patsos. [23] [24]
These events were portrayed in Moss's 1950 semi-autobiographical book Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe. [45] In 1957, the book was turned into the film starring Dirk Bogarde, David Oxley and Marius Goring. [46]
Ill Met by Moonlight, 1950 book by W. Stanley Moss (II.i) Ill Met by Moonlight, 1957 film adaptation of Moss's book, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (II.i) Ill Met by Moonlight, 1994 film by S. P. Somtow (II.i) "Ill Met by Moonlight", 1996 episode of Gargoyles (II.i) Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire (II.ii) Bottom's Dream by Arno ...
Cyril Cusack (The Small Back Room, The Elusive Pimpernel, Gone to Earth, Ill Met by Moonlight) David Farrar (Black Narcissus, The Small Back Room, Gone to Earth, The Battle of the River Plate) Marius Goring (The Spy in Black, A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes, Ill Met by Moonlight)
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A War of Shadows [1] [2] is a non-fiction book written by W. Stanley Moss, [3] a British soldier, writer and traveller, best known, together with Patrick Leigh Fermor, for the Kidnap of General Kreipe as described in Moss’s book Ill Met by Moonlight. [4]