The Man Who Never Was

Apr 3, 1956

1h 43m

★ 7.0

The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--

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.

Genres

Thriller

War

Drama

History

Production Companies

Sumar Productions

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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

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Moultrie Kelsall

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Cyril Cusack

Sir Bernard Spilsbury

André Morell

Gen. Coburn

Michael Hordern

Vice-Admiral

Allan Cuthbertson

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