The Man Who Never Was (1956)1h43
Thriller · War · Drama · History
Director Ronald Neame (6.9 avg)
Also directed The Poseidon Adventure, The Odessa File, Hopscotch, and 21 more
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
Gloria Grahame
Robert Flemyng
Josephine Griffin
Stephen Boyd
Laurence Naismith
Geoffrey Keen
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