The Man Who Never Was

April. 03,1956      NR
Rating:
7.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Clifton Webb as  Lt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria Grahame as  Lucy Sherwood
Robert Flemyng as  Lt. George Acres
Josephine Griffin as  Pam
Stephen Boyd as  Patrick O'Reilly
Laurence Naismith as  Adm. Cross
Geoffrey Keen as  Gen. Nye
Moultrie Kelsall as  The Father
Cyril Cusack as  Taxi Driver
André Morell as  Sir Bernard Spilsbury

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