
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission(1988)
A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they're up against German wartime geniuses out to establish a Fourth Reich.


“They stole a General under the noses of his 20,000 crack paratroops.”
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

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
Ill Met by Moonlight is a war, adventure, action film released in 1957 exploring themes of general, kidnapping, crete, partisan, morse code. Directed by Michael Powell, it stars Dirk Bogarde, David Oxley, Marius Goring. Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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