
The Man Who Never Was
IMDB:
7.0
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.

The Man Who Never Was
IMDB:
7.0Released
4/3/1956
Genre
Thriller, War, Drama, History
Cast
Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Duration
1h 43m
Country
United Kingdom
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

Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Clifton Webb

Lucy Sherwood
Gloria Grahame

Lt. George Acres
Robert Flemyng

Pam
Josephine Griffin

Patrick O'Reilly
Stephen Boyd

Adm. Cross
Laurence Naismith

Gen. Nye
Geoffrey Keen

The Father
Moultrie Kelsall

Taxi Driver
Cyril Cusack

Sir Bernard Spilsbury
André Morell

Gen. Coburn
Michael Hordern

Vice-Admiral









