The Man Who Never Was (1956)
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 WasThriller, War, Drama, History
Cast
- Clifton Webb — Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
- Gloria Grahame — Lucy Sherwood
- Robert Flemyng — Lt. George Acres
- Josephine Griffin — Pam
- Stephen Boyd — Patrick O'Reilly
- Laurence Naismith — Adm. Cross
- Geoffrey Keen — Gen. Nye
- Moultrie Kelsall — The Father
- Cyril Cusack — Taxi Driver
- André Morell — Sir Bernard Spilsbury
- Michael Hordern — Gen. Coburn
- Allan Cuthbertson — Vice-Admiral
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