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The Man Who Never Was

(1956)

April 3, 1956• 1h 43m
70%
TMDB Score

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.

Ronald Neame

Director

Top Billed Cast

CW

Clifton Webb

Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu

GG

Gloria Grahame

Lucy Sherwood

RF

Robert Flemyng

Lt. George Acres

JG

Josephine Griffin

Pam

SB

Stephen Boyd

Patrick O'Reilly

LN

Laurence Naismith

Adm. Cross

GK

Geoffrey Keen

Gen. Nye

MK

Moultrie Kelsall

The Father

CC

Cyril Cusack

Taxi Driver

AM

André Morell

Sir Bernard Spilsbury

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