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The Man Who Never Was

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The Man Who Never Was — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • April 3, 1956
  • Runtime
  • 103 min
  • Genres
  • Thriller, War, Drama, History
  • Director
  • Ronald Neame

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The Man Who Never Was — Cast

Clifton Webb photo Clifton Webb Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu Gloria Grahame photo Gloria Grahame Lucy Sherwood Robert Flemyng photo Robert Flemyng Lt. George Acres Josephine Griffin photo Josephine Griffin Pam Stephen Boyd photo Stephen Boyd Patrick O'Reilly Laurence Naismith photo Laurence Naismith Adm. Cross Geoffrey Keen photo Geoffrey Keen Gen. Nye Moultrie Kelsall photo Moultrie Kelsall The Father

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