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The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was

IMDB:

7.0
The Man Who Never Was

Released

4/3/1956

Duration

1h 43m

Genre

Thriller, War, Drama, History

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng

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

Clifton Webb

Gloria Grahame

Lucy Sherwood

Gloria Grahame

Robert Flemyng

Lt. George Acres

Robert Flemyng

Josephine Griffin

Pam

Josephine Griffin

Stephen Boyd

Patrick O'Reilly

Stephen Boyd

Laurence Naismith

Adm. Cross

Laurence Naismith

Geoffrey Keen

Gen. Nye

Geoffrey Keen

Moultrie Kelsall

The Father

Moultrie Kelsall

Cyril Cusack

Taxi Driver

Cyril Cusack

André Morell

Sir Bernard Spilsbury

André Morell

Michael Hordern

Gen. Coburn

Michael Hordern

Allan Cuthbertson

Vice-Admiral

Allan Cuthbertson

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