The Man Who Never Was (1956)

7.0/10 • 103 min • Thriller War Drama History

Overview

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

Cast

Clifton Webb

Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

Gloria Grahame

Robert Flemyng

Lt. George Acres

Josephine Griffin

Stephen Boyd

Patrick O'Reilly

Laurence Naismith

Geoffrey Keen

Moultrie Kelsall

Cyril Cusack

André Morell

Sir Bernard Spilsbury

Michael Hordern

Allan Cuthbertson

Joan Hickson

Terence Longdon

Gibb McLaughlin

Miles Malleson

William Russell

William Squire

Richard Wattis

Ronald Adam

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