The Man Who Never Was

1956Rated7.01h 43mThriller, War, Drama

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.

Starring: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng

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Cast

  • Clifton WebbLt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
  • Gloria GrahameLucy Sherwood
  • Robert FlemyngLt. George Acres
  • Josephine GriffinPam
  • Stephen BoydPatrick O'Reilly
  • Laurence NaismithAdm. Cross
  • Geoffrey KeenGen. Nye
  • Moultrie KelsallThe Father
  • Cyril CusackTaxi Driver
  • André MorellSir Bernard Spilsbury

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