The Man Who Never Was
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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Ronald Neame
Gerry O'Hara
Erica Masters
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A bit like "I Was Monty's Double" (1958), this is a clever tale of British counter-espionage based on a true story. An RNVR officer Ewan Montagu (Clifton Webb) hits on the idea of arranging for the body of a senior British officer to be washed up on the shores of Spain complete with a whole set of falsified documents designed to mislead the Nazis into thinking that Greece was a target for invasion from N. Africa and so as to encourage them to divide their forces. A solid British cast of Robert Flemyng, Geoffrey Keen and Laurence Naismith provide the military backbone to the story and Gloria Grahame plays along well when the Nazi's send a slightly oddly cast Stephen Boyd along as an Irishman charged with investigating whether or not the officer and his documents are real. Ronald Neame presents us with a well directed, scripted and scored depiction of a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the cast deliver a solid and, at times, quite suspenseful wartime drama.
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The directors of The Man Who Never Was are Ronald Neame, Gerry O'Hara, and Erica Masters.
The cast of The Man Who Never Was includes Geoffrey Keen as Gen. Nye, Laurence Naismith as Adm. Cross, Peter Sellers as Voice of Winston Churchill (uncredited), Richard Wattis as Shop Assistant, Joan Hickson as Landlady, William Russell as Joe, John Welsh as Bank Manager, Stephen Boyd as Patrick O'Reilly, André Morell as Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Terence Longdon as Larry, Michael Hordern as Gen. Coburn, Brian Oulton as Wills Officer (uncredited), and more.
The duration of The Man Who Never Was is 1h 43 mins.
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The Man Who Never Was was released on 03 Apr 1956.
The Man Who Never Was is listed under Thriller, War, Drama, and History on Fanbiz.
The Man Who Never Was has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "A bit like "I Was Monty's Double" (1958), this is a clever tale of British counter-espionage based on a true story. An RNVR officer Ewan Montagu (Clifton Webb) hits on the idea..."
