(U.S. title: Night Ambush.) This is based on a real-life exploit during World War II: British agents working with partisans in Crete and led by 'Philidem' (Dirk Bogarde) decide to kidnap a German general (Marius Goring), by way of encouraging the partisans and demoralizing the Germans. William K. Everson writes, "Unlike the retelling of the epic of the Graf Spee, this quite unimportant footnote to the history of the war does not seem particularly worth chronicling. And as if to underline that, (the film) has a curious tongue-in-cheek quality. Nobody seems to be taking it entirely seriously; the grimmer aspects of the war are played down, and it looks constantly as though it is going to turn into the kind of spoof of war films that Beat the Devil represents-a tough, hardbitten adventure yarn. However, it never does so, and the air of whimsicality suggests that Powell's own delightfully ebullient personality was wholly in command, needing but lacking the subliminal restraints heretofore exercised by Pressburger's collaboration."