Clifton WebbLt. Cmdr. Ewen MontaguSavaraTV movie
The Man Who Never Was
The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--
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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Starring
Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng
Directed by
Ronald Neame
About
The Man Who Never Was
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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.
The most fiendish plot ever conceived! The most amazing "human being" ever created! The most diabolical phantom--
Information
- Released
- Apr 3, 1956
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Status
- Released
Language & origin
- Original audio
- English
- Country
- US, GB
- Rating
- NR
- Directed by
- Ronald Neame
Production
- Studio
- Sumar Productions
Cast
People in this story
Clifton WebbLt. Cmdr. Ewen Montagu
Gloria GrahameLucy Sherwood
Robert FlemyngLt. George Acres
Josephine GriffinPam
Stephen BoydPatrick O'Reilly
Laurence NaismithAdm. Cross
Geoffrey KeenGen. Nye
Moultrie KelsallThe Father
Cyril CusackTaxi Driver
André MorellSir Bernard Spilsbury
Michael HordernGen. Coburn
Allan CuthbertsonVice-AdmiralMetadata and artwork discovery powered by TMDB.