The Man Who Never Was 1956

Synopsis

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.

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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

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