Overview
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Cast
- 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