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
as
Roland Bartrop
as Miki
George Eugeniou
as
