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Ill Met By Moonlight
John Cairney plays Elias. This wartime adventure film, 'Ill Met by Moonlight' (1956) was written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Dirk Bogarde starred with Marius Goring. A British unit enlisted the help of Cretans to kidnap a German Commander on the island of Herakleion to embarrass the Germans.