Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Starring: Dirk Bogarde Country: United Kingdom Released: 1957
VERDICT: An old-fashioned adventure story, semi-accurately adapting Moss’s account of plucky derring-do
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01 Based on W Stanley Moss’s memoir, the film follows Bogarde as Patrick Leigh Fermor, who leads a group of Cretan resistance fighters in kidnapping Nazi General Kreipe. The real Leigh Fermor described Bogarde as “the ghost of oneself 12 years ago”.