Top Billed Cast

Dirk Bogarde
Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"
David Oxley
Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss
Marius Goring
Major General Kreipe
Dimitri Andreas
Niko Soldan Emeris
Cyril Cusack
Captain Sandy Rendel
Laurence Payne
Manoli
Wolfe Morris
George
Michael Gough
Andoni Zoidakis
John Cairney
Elias
Brian Worth
Roland Bartrop
Miki
George Eugeniou
Paul Stassino
Yani Katsias
Peter Augustine
The Dentist
Christopher Rhodes
General Breuer
Christopher Lee
German officer at The Dentist's office
Richard Marner
German Officer with Gen. Breuer
David McCallum
Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)
Peter Swanwick
Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Adeeb Assaly
Peter Brace
Guido Lorraine
Howard Marion-Crawford
George Pravda
Andreas Malandrinos
Greek (uncredited)
E. V. H. Emmett
Narrator(voice) (uncredited)
Gisela Birke
German Girl(uncredited)
Phyllia Houseman
Michali's Sister
John Houseman
Johnny Houseman
Takis Frangofinos
Michali
Theo Moreas
Village Priest

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jan 29 2025

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 ...