Movie
The Man Who Never Was
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1956-04-03
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Thriller, War, Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Sumar Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Clifton Webb as Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
- Gloria Grahame as Lucy Sherwood
- Robert Flemyng as Lt. George Acres
- Josephine Griffin as Pam
- Stephen Boyd as Patrick O'Reilly
- Laurence Naismith as Adm. Cross
- Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye
- Moultrie Kelsall as The Father
- Cyril Cusack as Taxi Driver
- André Morell as Sir Bernard Spilsbury
- Michael Hordern as Gen. Coburn
- Allan Cuthbertson as Vice-Admiral
Crew
- Ronald Neame - Director
- Nigel Balchin - Screenplay
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