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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]
In 1950 W. Stanley Moss, one of the leaders of the operation, wrote a bestselling account of the abduction: Ill Met by Moonlight. In the 1957 film Ill Met by Moonlight, based on the book, Kreipe is portrayed by Marius Goring. [11] This operation was also parodied by the BBC radio program The Goon Show with the episode "Ill Met by Goonlight".
Mindy Kaling's architectural dress stunned at the 2024 Met Gala. On E!, commentator Elaine Welteroth said the dress made her "heart beat faster." The dress, designed by Gaurav Gupta, unfolds ...
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)
‘Schitt’s Creek’ star Dan Levy explained via Instagram the meaning behind his 2021 Met Gala outfit that paid homage to the LGBTQ+ community.