
104 minutes
1/31/1957
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
as Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor aka "Philedem"

David Oxley
as Capt. William Stanley "Bill" Moss

Marius Goring
as Major General Kreipe

Dimitri Andreas
as Niko Soldan Emeris

Cyril Cusack
as Captain Sandy Rendel

Laurence Payne
as Manoli
Wolfe Morris
as George

Michael Gough
as Andoni Zoidakis

John Cairney
as Elias

Brian Worth

Roland Bartrop
as Miki
George Eugeniou

Paul Stassino
as Yani Katsias
Peter Augustine
as The Dentist

Christopher Rhodes
as General Breuer

Christopher Lee
as German officer at The Dentist's office

Richard Marner
as German Officer with Gen. Breuer

David McCallum
as Sailor on Pick Up Ship (uncredited bit)

Peter Swanwick
as Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Adeeb Assaly
Peter Brace

Guido Lorraine

Howard Marion-Crawford

George Pravda

Andreas Malandrinos
as Greek (uncredited)
E. V. H. Emmett
as Narrator(voice) (uncredited)
Gisela Birke
as German Girl(uncredited)
Phyllia Houseman
as Michali's Sister
John Houseman
as Johnny Houseman
Takis Frangofinos
as Michali
Theo Moreas
as Village Priest