Title: The Man Who Never Was (The Man Who Never Was)
Release Date: 1956-04-03
IMDB ID: tt0049471
Vote Average: 7 (93 votes)
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.
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),
Crew: Ronald Neame (Director), Nigel Balchin (Screenplay), André Hakim (Producer), Bob McNaught (Associate Producer), Alan Rawsthorne (Original Music Composer), Oswald Morris (Director of Photography),
Release Date: 1956-04-03
IMDB ID: tt0049471
Vote Average: 7 (93 votes)
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.
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),
Crew: Ronald Neame (Director), Nigel Balchin (Screenplay), André Hakim (Producer), Bob McNaught (Associate Producer), Alan Rawsthorne (Original Music Composer), Oswald Morris (Director of Photography),