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Synopsis: British musicologist Frances Ferris and her late teen niece Nicky Ferris are traveling through Crete recording Greek folk songs for the BBC. In the usually quiet coastal town of Aghios Georgios, they manage to get a room at an inn called the Moon-Spinners, despite the people at the inn being busy preparing for a wedding, and no one there, except Alexis, the young teen son of the proprietress Sophia, he who is fond of spouting current popular Americanisms in his slightly broken English, seeming to want them there. Frances and Nicky learn from Alexis that the unwelcoming feeling is all because of his maternal Uncle Stratos, who has become a man suspicious of anyone ever since his recent return from London after being away for fifteen years. Beyond those there for the wedding, the only other guest at the inn is a young Englishman named Mark Camford, who they befriend. Nicky is too preoccupied with her own suspicions and mistrust of Stratos truly to see that there is something more siniste
Genre: Family, Mystery, Romance
Director(s): James Neilson
Actors: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery, Joan Greenwood
Production: Walt Disney Productions
 
IMDB:
6.9
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G
Year:
1964
118 min
271 Views

It's in my stateroom safe.

No. I want

the money here... now.

You don't even realize

what you're holding, do you?

A thousand years of passion,

pride, and blood...

crystallized into

those perfect stones.

V ery well.

(Leopard growls)

(Loud hiccup)

(Dramatic music playing)

(Speaking Greek)

(Gasps)

You!

Aah!

What are you doing here?

(Speaking Greek)

Let me go!

(Leopard growls)

(Growling)

Let him go!

Let him go!

Nikky, keep away!

Stop! Stop this fight!

You'll smash everything.

Oh!

Captain. Captain! Stop them!

Captain!

Oh, Captain! Captain!

Stop them!

Mark.

Stop. Stop!

Unh!

(Growls)

Stratos!

There. There is your man.

Not the young one,

you fool!

The other one.

You're under arrest.

The police are insisting

that we turn back to Heraklion.

You must do

as they say, of course.

But, Madame...

You should know by now

I always cooperate...

with the police.

Nobody is to leave

this ship.

They cannot have lied.

The stars cannot lie.

Everybody lies when

it serves their purpose...

even the stars.

(Officer speaking Greek)

I lived through two wars,

four revolutions...

and five marriages...

but nothing...

nothing like this.

I thought I told you

to go back to Athens.

Yeah.

(Hiccups)

Of all the pig-headed,

persistent pests...

AUNTFRANCES:

Nikky!

Nikky, you dreadful girl!

- Are you all right?

- Yes.

Don't you ever, ever, ever...

Madame Habib,

this is my Aunt Frances.

Well, since this

seems to have...

turned into

a family reunion...

we might as well

make the best of it.

I will have dinner served

on the rear deck.

I'm so upset...

I shall have mine in bed.

Madame...

I'm sorry to

inconvenience you...

but don't you think

the Countess of Fleet...

would like her pendant?

You and I have not even

been introduced.

You didn't think I was

going to keep it, did you?

The Countess happens

to be one of my oldest...

and dearest friends.

Thank you.

MADAME HABIB:

Charlemagne!

Nikky! Nikky!

Will someone please...

Oh, Alexis!

Will someone please

tell me what's happening?

(Dramatic music playing)

Good-bye, Alexis!

Thanks for everything!

You come back

to Aghios Georgios.

We make good hotel now.

We'll come back soon,

Alexis. Good-bye.

Good-bye. We'll be back.

You come back.

We have nice

big wedding, maybe.

Maybe. Ha ha ha.

- Good-bye.

- Good-bye, Alexis.

- Be careful.

- Bye-bye.

Good-bye, Alexis.

- Good-bye.

- Bye.

(Dramatic music playing)

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Michael Dyne

Michael Bradley Dyne (August 19, 1918, London – May 17, 1989, Linlithgo, New York) was a British-American television and film screenwriter. He was also an actor, and wrote one stage play. Dyne was the son of sculptor Musgrave Bradley Dyne. He was born in London and educated in France and Switzerland, and became a writer and actor in Canada, then emigrated to the United States in 1938.Dyne played small parts in some Paramount and 20th Century-Fox films (such as the Prince of Wales in Kitty (1945)). He tried out for the title role in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) but lost out to Hurd Hatfield.Starting in 1949 Dyne became a pioneering television writer, turning out 25 plays for Studio One and also writing scripts for The Alcoa Hour, Kraft Television Theatre, Playhouse 90, and other television shows. From 1952 to 1970, Dyne wrote more than 150 dramas for television, including adaptations of Henry James, Pirandello, and Thomas Hardy.Dyne also wrote movie scripts for Walt Disney Studios, including The Moon-Spinners (1964). He wrote the 1964 play The Right Honourable Gentleman which ran for three years in the West End and was also produced on Broadway. more…

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