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The Man Who Never Was

The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--

1956 · NR · 1h 43m

Directed by Ronald Neame

7.0

TMDB audience score
97 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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
    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

  • Geoffrey Keen
    Gen. Nye

  • Moultrie Kelsall
    The Father

  • Cyril Cusack
    Taxi Driver

  • André Morell
    Sir Bernard Spilsbury

  • Michael Hordern
    Gen. Coburn

  • Allan Cuthbertson
    Vice-Admiral

  • Joan Hickson
    Landlady

  • Terence Longdon
    Larry

  • Gibb McLaughlin
    Porter

  • Miles Malleson
    Scientist

  • William Russell
    Joe

  • William Squire
    Lt. Jewell