| Ill Met by Moonlight (Night Ambush) | |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Written by | W. Stanley Moss (book) Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Produced by | Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Marius Goring David Oxley Cyril Cusack |
| Cinematography | Christopher Challis |
| Edited by | Arthur Stevens |
| Music by | Mikis Theodorakis |
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| Distributed by | The Rank Organisation |
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Running time | 104 minutes 93 minutes (U.S.) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £212,091[1] |
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), released in the USA 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 film, which stars Dirk Bogarde and features Marius Goring, David Oxley, and Cyril Cusack, is based on the 1950 book Ill Met by Moonlight: The Abduction of General Kreipe by W. Stanley Moss, which is an account of events during the author's service on Crete during World War II as an agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the book features the young agents' capture and evacuation of the German general Heinrich Kreipe.