Still image from the 1958 film Night Ambush.

Night Ambush

Directed by Michael Powell

Two British soldiers are assigned to kidnap a key Nazi commander.

1958 1h 33m War TV-PG

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Michael Powell, Director
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Michael Powell
Director

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Marius Goring, General Karl Kriepe
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Marius Goring
General Karl Kriepe

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Cyril Cusack, Sandy
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Cyril Cusack
Sandy

FULL SYNOPSIS

A pair of British soldiers kidnap the Nazi occupying general of Crete and, with the help of some Cretan freedom fighters, they try to ship him off to British headquarters in Cairo.


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It would seem that it's impossible to love movies and not be a Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger cultist - their brand of grandly gestured cinema inspires crazed, indecipherable, passionate devotion and ardor. Their eighteen features over some 35 years are varied and yet strangely cohesive; they do not resemble other films, especially other British films, and it's not a question of whether you're in love with a Powell/Pressburger film (Powell directed, Pressburger wrote or co-wrote, they both produced), but which one. Many stump for the exotic Technicolor ballet-rhapsody The Red Shoes (1948), but others - especially women - can tend toward the mysterious proto-feminist dream film I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), which, famously, so overwhelmed New Yorker staff writer Nancy Franklin that she made a pilgrimage to its Scottish isles, and revisited them again for a documentary about the film's legacy. The Tales of Hoffman (1951) might be the best opera ever put on film, and Brits of a certain generation cannot let go of either The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) or A Matter of Life and Death (1945). I'd hate to choose, but the very strange, very serene wartime saga A Canterbury Tale (1944) would certainly have a fighting chance at the top of the pile for me. And so on. Ill Met by Moonlight (1957), otherwise and less poetically known as Night Ambush, was one of their last productions together, and it's reasonable to guess that it's no one's favorite Powell/Pressburger...

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