Top billed cast

1. 

   Dirk Bogarde

   Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"

2. 

   David Oxley

   Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss

3. 

   Marius Goring

   Major General Kreipe

4. 

   Dimitri Andreas

   Niko Soldan Emeris

5. 

   Cyril Cusack

   Captain Sandy Rendel

6. 

   Laurence Payne

   Manoli

7. 

   Wolfe Morris

   George

8. 

   Michael Gough

   Andoni Zoidakis

9. 

   John Cairney

   Elias

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-29

Dirk Bogarde was good in these light-hearted but entertaining wartime dramas, and together here with Marius Goring manages to keep this moving along well. He's a British officer on Crete who comes up with a plan to kidnap the Nazi's commanding general "Kreipe" (Goring) together with the local resistance. Quite quickly, they discover that the general isn't that well protected. Getting him is one thing, keeping him and getting him off the island is going to be something completely different though as it turns out he's quite a shrewd customer. With the soldiers combing the island to find them, we...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$215,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• general
• kidnapping
• crete
• partisan
• morse code